I guess these people just can’t be bothered to organize stuff. I find a bit puzzling that they prefer to live with chaos like that. I would feel very anxious and frustrated if I had to deal with a hundred tabs in a single window all the time.
Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Do none of these people know about the bookmarks bar? And that you can literally put folders on it if you want?
What do you mean they’re not visible, of course they are
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Unquote0270@programming.dev 4 days ago
Shockingly, some people function differently to you.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Maybe they have a superpower for staying calm even though everything around them is a total mess. I know I don’t have that power.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The whole entire world is a giant fucked up mess run by mentally handicapped billionaires. Shits fucking terrifying and we’re all cooked. Having a neat browser window isn’t going to fix that.
Unquote0270@programming.dev 4 days ago
The point is that it may look like a mess to you but that doesn’t mean it is objectively a mess. Hundreds of open tabs can still have logic and organisation even if that is not obvious to you.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
I don’t even really have mine organized. I tried at one point, but meh…
It’s still all there at the top of my browser, right under the URL bar, except they are all open tabs, because that’s not what tabs are for.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m never actually going to look in the bookmarks folder so why would I put anything there?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Bookmarks bar. It’s literally a toolbar under your URL bar that you can have displaying always.
You can put folders on that bar (with no name if you want so it takes up almost no space) if you want.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Hahahaha, right.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Pardon? Why was that funny?
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Hilarious
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Out of sight, out of mind, which means it comes with pros and cons though. If you feel like 500 tabs is consuming too much of your mental bandwidth, then offloading some of them to bookmarks should help. The idea is that only active stuff would be in the tabs, while everything a bit less active would be in the bookmarks.
Some people just don’t roll that way, and this thread has some interesting comments about that style too.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
While I was writing my master’s thesis I tried to put things in the bookmarks folder and ended up re-researching a lot of topics. It ended up being much less work having 6 browser windows open across 2 monitors with a bunch of tabs relating to related subjects. For example window 1 might have only papers related to retrograde tracer studies in the medial entorhinal cortex, window 2 has anterograde tracer studies in the insular cortex etc that way if I needed info on any of those subjects I could flip through the tabs related to that topic before searching for a paper.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
In other words, that’s the kind of stuff you need to reference frequently, so having those tabs constantly open is quite useful for the task at hand.
Other people seem to just neglect and abandon a bunch of tab. That’s a very different crowd though.