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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 5 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That ain't no power user, that's a lazy tech who needs to clean up after himself and close a browser window every once in awhile.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everyone uses tech in their own way.

You and I might only have a few tabs open, this person has a lot.

It's easy to be critical of them, but whatever.

Maybe it's like saving shortcuts or files to the desktop. Seems ridiculous but if that's how nan wants to do it who cares.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ill only judge them for not simply using bookmarks

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't use bookmarks

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but why

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why would I?

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

organization

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

organise what?

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the tabs

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tabs?

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

do you know what firefox is?

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

How is that a "power user"? That's just a poor way to use the browser. It's basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can't even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.

A power user would use something called "bookmarks" to organise that better.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs... How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I've just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like I'm the master of the internet.

[–] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What an idiot, thats why I have 7,400 bookmarks that I never intend to sort.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Once you realize that you don’t sort or ever even revisit them, you can start using the browsing history to serve the same purpose.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

Then you realize bookmarks and history are worse than keeping the tabs

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i appreciate ff can do this and all, but isnt this usecase covered by you know, the browser history?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bookmarks

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago

I find bookmarks simply useless compared to tabs. Massive cognitive burden to sort and categorize. Also can't search the content text.

I prefer textfiles full of urls more than bookmarks