• Million@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      15 days 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

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      15 days ago

      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.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 days 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.

  • msantossilva@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    15 days ago

    That seems perfectly reasonable. That is little more than 100 tabs per window. I routinely have more than 500 tabs per window. Currently, I have 3 windows open with a rough total of 15000 tabs

  • TabbsTheBat@pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    15 days ago

    Meanwhile when I was looking for a new browser a bit back I tried finding one without a tab feature at all lol

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      15 days ago

      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.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 days ago

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

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        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.

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
    4·
    15 days ago

    probably shift-command-tilde, since command-tilde is “next tab”. You can remember it because it’s one key away from command-tab and shift-command-tab to go to the next application and previous application.

    • aard@kyu.de
      0·
      15 days ago

      treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can’t really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven’t tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I’ll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I love the new vertical tabs. I just wish I could select which side of the window the sidebar is placed on per window since I have a browser on each monitor.

        I also sort my tabs by entertainment or manuals in the one window, active reading or similar in the main window. That helps sort my 400+ tabs enough and if that’s not enough I can always search.

        • aard@kyu.de
          1·
          15 days ago

          I haven’t really used bookmarks for probably close to two decades, for various reasons.

          Keeping them synchronized always was a pain, and that was before you got into multiple browsers. That part at least is better now.

          Then the interfaces to manage them sucked - I did try a bit back then to manage them externally, but the storage formats also were stupid.

          And then I seemed to have reached the number of bookmarks the browsers no longer were able to handle (presumably due to the shitty way they were storing them), and adding or editing bookmarks always included several seconds between clicks to wait for the browser to react.

          Pretty much everything apart from the first point is still true for the built in bookmark managers.

          • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            15 days ago

            And tabs management is somehow better? I dont even wrap my head around that you’d have more bookmarks that it slows the browser but yet think that many tabs wouldnt?

            • aard@kyu.de
              1·
              15 days ago

              Well, one thing is that I have significantly less tabs than I had bookmarks. My bookmarks where somewhere high in the 5-figure range, maybe even 6 figure.

              My heaviest used system has less than 10k tabs open.

              It’s not ideal, but the tab trees in treestyle tabs mean I usually can just scroll a short bit and click to find what I need.

              Ideal would be a fully external bookmark manager - but browsers don’t have APIs for that, so you’d have to end up writing an extension just to talk to your external management solution, and since they gimped the firefox plugin system about a decade ago you don’t really have any useful APIs for doing that. (I’m current maintainer of the emacs keybindings extension for firefox, it’s a hot mess to get a fraction of the functionality that was possible with the old extension system working. No idea why they don’t offer the ability to do custom keybindings)