Because I don’t want 750+ bookmarks cluttering up my bookmarks folder? I have hundreds of those too and I like to keep them organized.
Bookmarks are for interesting things and things I want to save for later, not things that I’m not quite done with but probably won’t come back to for an indeterminate amount of time. But that’s beside the point.
Also this isn’t the 90s, firefox doesn’t keep every tab loaded in RAM. It unloads them when they’re inactive for a couple weeks (I think you can change the time frame) and then it just saves the URL and reloads the page when you come back to it. Even if you have a dozen active tabs open, it’ll unload pretty much all but the several most recent.
Finding an old tab isn’t that hard because if you remember a few keywords you can just type it in the search bar and it’ll show you results from your history, bookmarks, and open tabs
You can create as many sub folders for bookmarks as you like and bookmarks are searchable just like open tabs are.
My browsers are set to forget open tabs and browsing history upon closing. I don’t want to see yesterdays shit unless I specifically saved it as a bookmark. Otherwise I would absolutely drown.
That being said: If using tabs works for you, that’s great! Neither way is right or wrong. I just have a hard time understanding.
You know what I think is gross? Forgetting the name of an obscure person from history because I closed the tab a month ago because I thought I was done with it and not being able to find it in my browsing history
Then just go through the same steps as you did before?
I never leave any tabs open. Only have the most important sites bookmarked. And all my history gets deleted every time I close my browser.
If I’m ever in the position that I need to retrieve some information I once found, (which happens rarely to none), I just retrace my steps and find it pretty easily again since I have more info about it than before I did my search.
Oh hey, look at mr tidypants over here with the clean browser. I bet your room is really near too. You probably keep your desk clear when you’re not using it, don’t you?
Because I don’t want 750+ bookmarks cluttering up my bookmarks folder? I have hundreds of those too and I like to keep them organized.
Bookmarks are for interesting things and things I want to save for later, not things that I’m not quite done with but probably won’t come back to for an indeterminate amount of time. But that’s beside the point.
Also this isn’t the 90s, firefox doesn’t keep every tab loaded in RAM. It unloads them when they’re inactive for a couple weeks (I think you can change the time frame) and then it just saves the URL and reloads the page when you come back to it. Even if you have a dozen active tabs open, it’ll unload pretty much all but the several most recent.
Finding an old tab isn’t that hard because if you remember a few keywords you can just type it in the search bar and it’ll show you results from your history, bookmarks, and open tabs
You can create as many sub folders for bookmarks as you like and bookmarks are searchable just like open tabs are.
My browsers are set to forget open tabs and browsing history upon closing. I don’t want to see yesterdays shit unless I specifically saved it as a bookmark. Otherwise I would absolutely drown.
That being said: If using tabs works for you, that’s great! Neither way is right or wrong. I just have a hard time understanding.
I have dozens of bookmark folders and subfolders too.
I would panic if my browser closed my tabs for me. I like having control over what tabs I’m done with. I do kind of drown in them though…
gross
You know what I think is gross? Forgetting the name of an obscure person from history because I closed the tab a month ago because I thought I was done with it and not being able to find it in my browsing history
Then just go through the same steps as you did before?
I never leave any tabs open. Only have the most important sites bookmarked. And all my history gets deleted every time I close my browser.
If I’m ever in the position that I need to retrieve some information I once found, (which happens rarely to none), I just retrace my steps and find it pretty easily again since I have more info about it than before I did my search.
Oh hey, look at mr tidypants over here with the clean browser. I bet your room is really near too. You probably keep your desk clear when you’re not using it, don’t you?
*Breaks down and sobs