Comment by paid_dot_expert
12 hours ago
It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.
12 hours ago
It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.
It would cause more tabs to be open.
You can't use the old tab because all the plants. You open a new tab for the same page. Don't need to close any old tab for that.
Pro talking here…
Seems like we're recognizing something that people actually want: The assurance that their state will be preserved
versus what the operating system or browser can provide.
In fact, weren't bookmarks supposed to solve EXACTLY this? You'd just bookmark a website on any page then come back to it any time in the future.
But then websites wanted to be apps and stopped storing state in the URL...
It's not about the state of the actual page since that can go away as soon as the browser restarts or even when memory gets low.
But tabs store history, and that's important pretty often to me. And I can dig through multiple tabs and their histories together.
Have session storage extensions ever caught up to where they were before firefox dumped XUL?
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Why would you not want to keep them open?
If you have tabs sitting there unused for days, isn't that just a bookmark?
Bookmarks are so badly neglected tabs might be preferable. Firefox mobile doesn't even allow you to tag new bookmarks.
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Or a history item!
People forget about browser history. It’s super useful.
My technique: I open tabs just like anyone else, and when I feel like “that’s too many tabs”, I just close them all. Every one of them.
If I need them again? Open up the browser history. It’s searchable. It has everything. Use it!
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I use tabs as ephemeral bookmarks, yeah
Maybe there’s a better way
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Resource conservation ( memory ), attention conservation ( focus, change for additional distractions ) come to mind.