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    14 hours ago

    What do browsers even let you do this? I feel like it should cap out at like 200 max. Nobody even needs 200 but there’s got to be some kind of limit somewhere.

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          12 hours ago

          I had fifty open one day after working a tech related bug. I wasn’t getting anywhere so I closed it out and switched search engines. Less than thirty minutes later I and found a solution.

          Too many tabs is a huge distraction. Its also a common thing to see if you are working tech support for a organization. I’ve seen well over a hundred tabs open on some users browsers.

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      12 hours ago

      If you can bg inactive tabs they just become another type of bookmark, because they don’t the up any memory

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        11 hours ago

        Then use bookmarks. We shouldn’t design around people using products completely incorrectly.

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          6 hours ago

          Tabs are part checklist. If I use bookmarks, they go out of siht, out of mind. As tabs there’s a reminder to resolve the topic.

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              5 hours ago

              No, some items have a dozen tabs associated, and others are recurring tasks.

              I only have maybe 15 topics in my tabs, half are waiting on something else to be resolved, and a sixth are videos to be watched.

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                5 hours ago

                Realistically- how often do you actually go through and take care of these items, and how important was it really if it could sit on the list while hundreds of other things pile up?

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    1 day ago

    For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it’s ctrl+tab, but only if you enable “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” in Settings first.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s so odd to me that this isn’t the default behaviour for all browsers especially Edge. It’s literally alt+tab behaviour but for some reason browser designers decided it wouldn’t work that way.

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        10 hours ago

        This works in edge. Alt+tab also cycles between 2 tabs in edge if a previos tab was selected, or between windows if not. Which annoys the hell out of me, going from email to edge, switching to the tab I need to copy from and expecting alt+tab to bring me back to email and instead just goes back to the tab I didn’t want.

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          5 hours ago

          Alt+tab also cycles between 2 tabs in edge if a previos tab was selected

          Alt+tab? What about ctrl+tab? What we were talking about…

          To answer my own question, I did a bit of searching and it looks like ctrl+tab still only cycles to the next tab in Edge. There’s a few requests for it to cycle to previous tab like alt+tab but looking through the settings and stuff it still doesn’t look like an option.

          Always happy to be proven wrong but it looks like it’s still not an option.

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            4 hours ago

            I replied too quick, and missed the recent used order of the op. Edge just cycles left to right with ctrl+tab I think. However, alt+tab actually would have been the solution for the oop at least in edge. Because it does go to your last used tab.

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      1 day ago

      Default behavior is for psychopaths.

      I’m so confused every time I use a new browser.

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    20 hours ago

    surely bookmark exist, why not bookmark your opened page ?
    i remembered my old friend who has tons of chrome tab filled with porn

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      22 hours ago

      Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.

      Unhinged behavior nonetheless

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      1 day ago

      Is there a command that closes all tabs because I would 100% recommend that one to the guy

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    There are search in tab title extensions around, if your herding extension for the thousands of tabs not already supports that.

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      20 hours ago

      Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can’t remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~

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    My brain can’t handle more than a dozen open tabs. If I need more than 8 or so, I’ll sling some in another browser instance. I honestly don’t know if this is because I’m dumb or smart, but at my last jobs the smarter people always had about 2 dozen tabs open. LOL, no one ever rebooted.

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      I work with someone who never closes a tab. They’ll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn’t bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.

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        I had a user that did this with outlook emails all the time. Since she was in leadership, we had to put up with it. At one point we even had to escalate it to Microsoft and they came back saying that Outlook is simply not designed to be used in such a fashion. That did not dissuade the user at all. After maxing out the computer specs, she ended up exceeding the actual limitation of the software for resources used.

        I think eventually she got fired for incompetence for other things. It was quite a relief.

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        Firefox tabs survive reboots and waste about as much resources as a bookmark. Those people should really migrate.

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      But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

      It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.