Why did tabs replace bookmarks? Do you not value your RAM? No, I don't care how many gigabytes of RAM you have, it doesn't invalidate my point. I have lots of RAM too.
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Zero on my phone, zero on my PC
Shhh... We don't talk about those
Work computer: 52 across 3 browsers, with 4 total 'tab groups'
Home computer: 22 with 1 browser and 3 'tab groups'
Phone: 0 (unless the new tab page counts that opens when I open my browser)
PC 0
Laptop 0
Phone 2
Y'all are psychopaths
;)
Look. I don't come here to be verbally abused.
I don't know. Firefox displays an infinity symbol after 99.
And I may have god knows how many inactive tabs. Ha!
My phone tells me I have β open.
I'm not sure how to easily count on my computer (firefox), I have vertical tabs on, I have to scroll, and many of the tabs are in collapsed groups...
And before you ask, yes all the tabs are important and necessary.
Phone: 179 iPad: 148 Work laptop: 206 Personal laptop: 15
Home PC: 5
Phone: Infinity symbol
Work PC: 43
All of them.
Phone: 71 (largely grouped, maybe 20 "independent" ones)
Desktop: ~700, spit into 6 windows, and grouped inside those windows, Vivaldi is a life saver if you're hording
Phone = 1701
Laptop = 6
Desktop = 0
I have just tidied up a bit⦠my phone was on ~470ish tabs. (Btw, did you know that the limit in safari on iOS is 500 tabs?)
Now my phone has 50.
I have a tab group on my desktop with tools to maintain my Plex server. I think there are 4 tabs in it. That's collapsed, but there. Then I'll have the one tab I'm actually using, often a second tab on another monitor streaming music or video.
0 tabs on phone.
0 tabs on laptop.
Reading through these comments... There's a lot of psychos in here. Some of y'all have hundreds of tabs open. Why?
four, anything more than a handful makes me anxious
Same, that's why I open more than 100 on my phone so the number disappears π¬
phone ~50
tablet ~30
pc ~20
work pc ~100
I used to be a no tabs person too, what happened ;-;
Phone: 59 Desktop: 400+ Luckily Firefox doesn't actually load all of those
Phone - 60 π
Desktop - 5
Laptop - 0 because it is off lol
Probably 150-200 on my PC.
About 4 on my phone.
Yes I have a problem, no I don't wanna talk about it.
iPhone: 499 Laptop: 0
Phone = 3 on Fennec (Catodon Home Feed, the Lemmy global feed from a Lemmy instance and the Wiktionary definition for "sturgeon")
Laptop (where I'm currently) = 2 on Waterfox (Catodon writing this reply, and your Lemmy thread as seen from a Lemmy instance)
Phone = 1
Work PC = 100+ (most of them pinned and organized into folders)
Personal PC = ~10
And I was thinking I am really bad with my 6 opened... π
In the browser you ask? 194 + 9 incognito.
Only 29.
Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab.
But yeah. That's on the low side compared to usual for me.
(Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)
how does it do with videos using your browser?
My experience is that the performance of videos depends a lot on how much of the screen the video takes up. More so than on the quality setting (480p, 720p, 1080p). Usually when I want to watch a video, I limit it to about 1/4 of the area of my 1920x1080 screen. But YouTube is pretty watchable. I don't think even when you select something like 720p@60fps or whatever that it ever actually gets up to 60fps, and sometimes the parts that don't compress as well drop a few frames (strobing in particular does that), but it's really not bad if you're ok with not doing full-screen.
Also, it depends where the video is hosted. If the JS is really light on the page, it's way more performant. If the JS is really heavy, I sometimes have to wait tens of seconds for it to render the first frame.
But also, this Raspberry Pi is mostly my Lemmy box. Not my main box.
Damn, I'm impressed that your rpi can handle that many tabs. Mine can only handle a few loaded pages at a time
My experience is that it has more to do with what's loaded in the tab than how many tabs are open. One tab can cause everything to run at like 1fps if it's bloated. ("Graphic design is my passion" kind of pages with tons of animations, usually.) But 100 Lemmy-UI tabs is no problem at all.
Phone just says β PC is 0 atm usually like 3-20
Phone: 72 π Laptop: ~25
Phone: 169 in Safari, inf in Firefox Computers: uhhhhhhh probably several thousand? It would take quite a while to get a number.
1 tab on my phone
18 tabs on my laptop across 4 virtual desktops
Hate to say it but I have probably 500 tabs opened combined
:)
phone: 57 laptop: ~3ish
On laptop, go until browser crashes in a loop.
One time, had to reboot three times so I could close some of the windows before they locked up.
PC = 1 Mobile phone = yes
I have a bookmark folder called Zombie Tabs that I periodically tidy the zombie tabs into
Also there's a FF extension called Tab Session Manager that removes the problem of keeping hold of tabs entirely
Currently just two, the tab for this page and another for Sekibanki's theme from Touhou 14.
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Phone = 69 Computer = I don't know
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