The only instances of this I have seen (on mobile) were not very tech-savvy people who click links in messages and apps, rarely open the browser, and/or don't understand how to use the browser to begin with.
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Yeah, I’ve seen that too. They also tend to have a thousand notifications waiting for them. They are basically ignoring the notification system entirely. Pointless spam pops up all the time and the one time they actually receive a message from someone, it’s impossible to know because they never look at the notifications. I guess the red dots are the only way these people know someone has sent them anything.
People like that would hate using SailfishOS, because it’s not holding your hand at all. If you leave everything open, it’s going to suck the RAM and battery in no time, and it’s all your fault. That’s one of the few mobile OSs that made me feel like I had an actual computer in my pocket.
Idk it's crazy to see the browser windows of some teammates during screen share.
Read the thing, write down the relevant stuff / copy it to reference notes, bookmark it with raindrop or something that allows you to tag for context, close the whole browser.
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I don't really see anyone admitting the truth: digital hoarding. At a certain number of tabs it becomes nearly impossible to find anything so it's hard for me to believe people really find the practice as useful as they claim. I probably have 50 tabs open but I use a tab group extension that keeps most hidden (and Firefox doesn't load the content in inactive tabs after you restart it). Most are essentially bookmarks but I'd be lying if I said even 20% of them end up being useful to keep open.
Ok, so is it just the feeling of keeping something that might be useful? Isn’t that what hoarding really is? I guess it’s better to hoard tabs than photos, let alone physical papers.
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the windows of siracusa county
Looking at what I have now, it's a mix of tasks I don't want to forget to do, a long article I was reading but felt i wasn't absorbing, some fanfic I am probably going to read in the next couple days plus the rec list I got them from, a podcast I'm still midway through for when I'm driving, an article for a work thing I'll need tomorrow, a couple dnd race pages open as I'm making a character for a new campaign, and two bsky people who post interesting articles on the daily so I read them daily. Some stuff is bookmarked, but if I'm using it in the next week, it stays in tabs.
They all get closed when I'm done with them, but new things get rotated in. I'm at my max now, but it's rare I have under five open. It's a to-do list, basically, and there are always new things to do, and read, and think about, and learn. Bookmarks are for when I want to save a link to look at much later. Like, webcomics I've caught up with, artists I like, utility pages, resources, etc.
I used to be "worse" because I had fun in the early 00s generating link lists for character fan pages. It involved opening every relevant link on an already vetted and tagged page, and then checking each one (and opening pages from their links if they turned out to be relevant). When I finished a character, I'd start on the next, so I'd have one or two hundred open most of the time. I lost interest, eventually. The impulse to link to relevant topics still exists in me, however, which is a big reason I'm on this website.
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I always mean to go back to them but never do. It's usually something that is not quite important enough to bookmark. At some point they reach critical mass and I lose the whole session. Tab savers mitigate this, however. Funny thing is, I never used to be a tab guy - I always just opened new pages.
Do tabs use less memory or something? Are they more system resource efficient overall?
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My browser in my phone opens a new tab every time I put in a new url. I should really change that setting...
I probably have 10 lemmy home open right now. Not that I can see aside of a flat 8 as amount of tabs open.
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porn? some people watch some embarrasing content that they dont want people seeing.
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No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I'm researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. Even then, if I get too many, and am frustrated in my search, I'll close them all in disgust and start over.
If it's something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.