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    5k tabs
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    At 1k tabs firefox was snappy and responsive, but at 5k tabs it was bad, very unstable, buggy and sluggish.
    Firefox would crash often even doing simple tasks, some times it took 2 or 3 tries to open firefox. scrolling through all the tabs a couple of minutes.
    But all good things must come to an end. Now I close any extra tabs, have 5 - 30 tabs open.

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      1 year ago

      Legitimate question - just how do you accumulate 5K tabs? Did you just never close any tabs, like ever?

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        Something like that. At first I opened tabs for ”This sounds interesting I will read / watch it later” or ”I’ll probably need it later” This got me to ~300 - 800 tabs but then it became a joke, I just left tabs open knowing full well where not needed. Some times keeping all tabs open payed off like, using the search feature to find back to a project I left off. This happened very rarely.

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      Exactly. I cannot comprehend people with dozens of windows with thousands of them. How do you find literally anything at that point?

      I usually close all, sometimes if I start a long video I’ll keep it open and paused until I come back to watch more of it. But that’s just one, and just because that site won’t remember where I left off, and I don’t want to memorize what the timestamp is. I will have to refresh the page to get it to resume loading the video, but I can remember the timestamp for the 2 seconds it takes to reload and click back to it. But I’ll forget if I have to come back hours later.

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        On linux, with kde, there is usually a browser extension preinstalled called plasma integration.

        It makes it so that when you search from the KDE equivalent of window’s start menu, you can also search open browser tabs or history.

        I close all tabs once I’m done, but when trying to solve a programming/devops related problem, having lots of tabs open lets me see more than one approach to a problem, along with opinions, side by side.

        And research in general requires a lot of tabs, in my experience.