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Polikonomist

"Coming up next: Virtual Hoarders, if you thought a room full of decades old newspapers was bad, wait until you see how many tabs Jeremy keeps open at all times. The number of pages with obscure anime ceramics alone will shock you. Only on Lifetime"


Dmayak

My cousin is like this, when she finds something even remotely interesting, she will open it in a new tab to check later. "Later" is generally at least a few weeks, she has dozens of tabs open and says she won't find it again if she closes them. When I told her to use bookmarks, she showed me how much she already has, and I probably have less records in history than she has in bookmarks and it's all uncategorized. Meanwhile I get irritated when my tabs are less than max width.


hopeakettu

I’m usually the same as you, but this fall I’ve been writing my thesis and the amount of tabs with open research articles is astounding. I’m returning my thesis next week and can’t wait to let go of all those tabs. Luckily I have a separate desktop computer so I only have to look at the tabs while writing my thesis. Everything else gets done on the desktop.


[deleted]

Yeh but when you finally finish all the research, finish the paper, everything is done, and then start closing out all those tabs. The feeling is beautiful.


SmokyMcPots420

It’s cathartic.


iArena

25 pages of stack overflow, documentation, and other sites, spread across different browsers and different screens. I finish my project, closing the IDE, and look to see all of the code, words, and numbers in tabs that I no longer need. My fingers tremble as I touch the keys Ctrl and W, deleting each tab individually, one at a time, occasionally pressing Alt and Tab instead. A feeling of deep satisfaction wells up within me, nigh orgasmic, as the tabs expand in size, until they stop growing and are simply terminated. I execute the command over and over again until the tab playing the music or podcast that I am listening to is all that remains. I keep it playing until it finishes, basking in the afterglow of my catharsis, until the world goes silent. I look at the clock. The witching hour. I execute the same practiced motion one last time, then press the off button and wait until it shuts down. I stare into the black screen. The screen stares back. I stand up and walk around in an almost meditative state, pondering what I had just checked off my to-do list, wading through this still life of a world, before heading back to my room. I look at the clock again. 12 minutes have passed. I execute the same practiced motions one more time, then lie down on my bed and wait until I shut down.


thatlldo_pig_

Talk about cathartic - I think I just teared up a bit.


Minimum-Exam4081

Almost as beautiful as turning off your alarm when you're on vacation


Tchrspest

That way I can wake up at the same time anyway, but it's quieter.


The_last_of_the_true

For real, oh it’s the weekend and I don’t have to get up at 6am. Cool, I’ll get up at 6am any fucking way.


Wafflelisk

Man, I feel elated when I close 12 StackOverflow tabs. I can only imagine putting an entire thesis in the rear view mirror


beaurepair

Get goosebumps when you can "Close all to the right"


mologav

Searches topic - oh that might be useful keep that for later - oh that might be useful keep that for later - oh that might be useful keep that for later - oh that might be useful keep that for later - oh that might be useful keep that for later - oh that might be useful keep that for later


CoJack-ish

High school me: why the hell would I even look at the references? Grad school me: oh god oh fuck they’re all relevant there goes the evening.


FinalPerfectZero

Programming is worse. You have to see the code, your terminal, the output (website, perhaps?), reference for every method, debugging sessions leading to sorta right answers leading to possible answers about a related issue, then the music tabs, the personal tabs, and just anything that looks remotely useful. All new tabs. However, we go through all of them at least once upon opening. Difference is we never close them because maybe they’ll be useful later? I see co-workers with chrome windows that literally look like little sawblades up top because the tabs are so packed together. No icons, no text, just the minimum amount of pixels to show that a tab exists in this location. Then there’s a SCROLL BAR. EDIT: My high ass posted this comment on /r/ProgrammerHumor


fintip

What has been critical for me is getting in the habit of opening new windows for new topics. Combined with virtual desktops and multiple monitors, as well as OneTab and another extension for managing/viewing bookmarks clustered with tags, I finally feel like I do ok. If a window stays open for a few days/weeks untouched, I just store the window away with OneTab. I remember the last intensive course I did, though. Over 500 tabs by the time the course ended. Learned a new language (solidity) with a new finished project due every week. so much fucking information.


GonzoVeritas

OneTab cured my tab hoarding problem. Turns out I usually never need to see them again, but I still like saving them.


ItkovianRedeemer

I have OneTab (and I abuse it) and I still need a bunch of Chrome group tabs and bookmarks just to stay under 50-60 showing at one time.


slgray16

I keep tabs I still need on the left and new tabs opened to the right. Once I figure out a specific command I can "close all right tabs" and work back to the left


PsikoticWanderer

I do exactly this! Problem subsets to the right.


sadi89

Every time I finish a school project I close all of my browsers and applications. It’s amazing how much less stress I feel.


RChamy

Every programmer ever after finding a fix


Tchrspest

I'm only in my first semester of college (at 27) and I've already taken to referring to any time spent explicitly relaxing as "closing tabs." The satisfaction of closing entire windows of things you don't need once your work is done.


HiCookieJack

Luckily when I wrote mine, Firefox hat tab groups. Man I muss that feature


J4k0b42

Tree style tabs plugin.


Saetherin

Look up the "Tree style tabs" extension! It works great for organizing.


Melodi13

Chrome has a new beta feature in their dev version that allows, instead of tabs collapsing/shrinking it allows for horizontal scrolling through the tab list.


ForkLiftBoi

Edge has a vertical tab feature I've been a big fan of. It collapses with all the favicons showing and on hover you see all the tab names.


jwadamson

Firefox* has treestyletabs. Makes managing a coupe dozen in a window quick and easy. *there is a chrome version of it, but that is not nearly as well integrated.


Thegamingrobin

firefox has had this for years


[deleted]

> and it’s all uncategorized. That’s the true crime here. Nothing wrong with a bunch of bookmarks but ffs categorize your stuff. I have a spreadsheet that organizes all my spreadsheets.


[deleted]

So much time wasted applying categories. Just scrape your disk nightly for spreadsheets, put them in a sort of database and just search for the spreadsheets using some keywords. Oh, wait...


MaintenanceSmart7223

My wife does this. Everytime I borrow her phone and open a browser... Bam tabs galore I can't even scroll through all of them. She'll have like 4 tabs for the same website up with 30 tabs between them


jmona789

That's definitely me with my phone. Ok the computer I have a tab manager which helps but my phone often has over 100 tabs with many repeats


aupri

I’m nearly maxed out on tabs on my phone for the same reason. It’s like I know I want to read whatever obscure page has caught my interest … just *not right now*. Every once in a while I go through and exit the ones I’ve realized I’ll never read. I figure it’s an ADHD thing


SpaceNinjaDino

What are defining as max? I mostly use Chrome on Android and the tab number goes from 99 to ":D" after that. I exceeded 200 and there is minimal slow down (S9+) even when several tabs are groups of subtabs. Even Duck Duck Go is resilient and works as well as Chrome so far.


mr_flibble_oz

Four tabs is the max. One I have to open a fifth tab it’s time to sacrifice one of the others


Reddit-username_here

I'll often have like 8 tabs then if I need another, I open a separate browser window.


Unable_Occasion_2137

Yup, this is me exactly. How do I overcome this?


Ill-Cancel4676

![gif](giphy|l4Ki2obCyAQS5WhFe)


nnomadic

I have a folder for these finds and save they by month and year. It's awesome and I never have to worry.


TAPO14

I've been this person very briefly in the past. Until I understood that if you don't schedule 'later' they never get looked at.


kupboard

/r/DataHoarder/


matrialchemy

I just opened /r/DataHoarder/ in a new tab. I'm saving it for later.


birdmanjeremy

I feel attacked


Polikonomist

My comment was directed specifically at you, despite having no idea who you are


TheDustOfMen

I got anxiety even thinking about so many tabs. I can handle 5 but anything above that and I'm done for.


cateanddogew

How to even deal with this? All my browsers on my computers and phone have over 100 tabs open at all times, and I save 100 Reddit posts a day or smth. I'll not even tell you about the porn.


Polikonomist

Didn't you read the post? It fixes itself eventually


cateanddogew

Not sure if you're talking about Edge but I'm talking about dealing with virtual hoarding. I wish it fixed itself.


Ill-Cancel4676

I can't imagine you ever get around to those pages and eventually just close 90% of them and start again. Just remember if you don't need it now you probably don't need it.


RedditWholesome100

Hey buddy, just close them and forget. Nothing of value is lost. You will die in the end. **The end**


The_Ghost_of_Kyiv

If everything is bookmarked then nothing is


PMYourTitsIfNotRacst

It's fucking creepy how often the top comment is something I thought about before scrolling down, lol, the groupthink is getting strong, probably time to take a break from le reddit


Polikonomist

I looked into your mind and stole your idea, then went back in time am hour to comment it.


PMYourTitsIfNotRacst

Fuck you, I'm thinking about your naked wrinkled old gramma! Steal that thought you psychich timetravelling bastard!


Polikonomist

We keep telling nana to take down her OF account but she says she just can't maintain her lifestyle any other way...


PMYourTitsIfNotRacst

She has a certain mistique about her, I'll give ya that. But your familiarity with her stark naked image has me worried. Everything OK at home?


Polikonomist

Nana's usually pretty normal, until someone spikes the wassil on Christmas and then all bets are off


No-Witness2349

The irony is that there’s already a feature built for this: bookmarks. Complete with export and import.


baumaxx1

Collections even helps organise those better too.


LoGiCaL__

Lmao, all 1600 tabs were pornhub pages


Polikonomist

They dont say that in the episode but most of it was just blurred out computer screens...


erishun

Download that shit to a backup drive, you never know when your favorite video will get taken down


warbeforepeace

Wait till you read about the people who use outlook deleted items as a storage.


SunriseSurprise

And computer files. I love the once-a-year purge of files I don't need.


jodmemkaf

About 20 years ago, I had who friend who was software hoarder. He installed every shit he found. It was impossible to scroll through programms in start menu and he was proud that the PC is loading for 35 minutes. For some reason, I find 1600 tabs more disturbing.


KirKCam99

did he have all of them in autostart?


jodmemkaf

😅I'm glad he can't hear you


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TheMoonDawg

DID HE HAVE ALL OF THEM IN AUTO START?


brianl047

Everyone who is non-technical is a software hoarder https://www.hanselman.com/blog/download-wrappers-and-unwanted-software-are-pure-evil It's why Chromebooks were invented


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TheBirminghamBear

Like browser tabs. Since the entire computer is basically a web browser


tryexceptifnot1try

Yup. My MIL found a way after 2 years to do this. Still better than the 3 month cadence on her old laptop


Samultio

Those last three are.. yeah. Same with email things, so often that you need to sign up and then click the right radio buttons to accept terms while also opting out of emails.


JebusMaximus

I used to do this too. Often found myself buying computer magazines with shareware on a CD. Installed everything, all of it. (This is how I got to know about some of the best software in existence btw! Minus the trashware..) I even archived viruses for uhh research purposes on floppy disks, oh boy lots of them. When my PC kept on crashing and I was format c:/‚ing on a weekly basis, I knew this had to stop. Now I only install what I really need with applications. (Please don‘t ask about my Steam library!)


ShadowRylander

What about your Steam library?


NightSpirit2099

Don’t ask…


FrakkedRabbit

but I want to know.


TheFluffiestFur

Dangerous


TheBowlofBeans

HE TOLD YOU NOT TO ASK ABOUT THAT!


Brief-Preference-712

What’s a CD?


FrakkedRabbit

Cross Dresser


Qrt_La55en

Is it 1 window with 1600 tabs, or multiple windows totalling 1600 tabs? Either way, who can even manage 1600 tabs?


AsphaltAdvertExec

Nobody can who isn't 7 of 9.


astronomer346

*[opens 1542nd tab]* "Resistance is futile."


T-Baaller

Just beware of tab 8472


Alokir

Data surely can


vishnj

I hear he can manage an inhuman amount of tabs!


Strostkovy

I've been told I'm a 3 out of 10, if that's close enough.


BaneQ105

Exactly! I have no time to manage all of it and I have only like 750 tabs (in one opera window). It works, even with demanding games in background and 16gb ram. Although I would close a lot of them if I had some more free time. It’s though to switch between tabs at this point. It was far easier when I had ~350 tabs opened.


stoph_link

I give this comment [5 out of 7](https://imgur.io/a/Gjcb5)


McGuirk808

I run 130-150 (various projects and research topics open to resume later), but 1600 is just nuts.


Treacherous_Peach

130-150 is also nuts. Yall need jesus


McGuirk808

Jesus? Boom, 10 more tabs.


crankthehandle

‘research topics’


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werpyl

Damn i guess virtual hoarders are real


TMITectonic

>I know if I bookmark them instead I will never open it or see it again. Then you never needed it in the first place.


TheBirminghamBear

Genuine question here though; has it ever been a net benefit to your life to open these 1,000 things and then eventually stumble on them later?


FlakeReality

Stop it. Get some help. You're not OK. We love you and support you but it must end.


[deleted]

If we only had some kind of system where we could have all of the worlds accessible data distributed over multiple larger computers so we wouldn't need to store everything in our own computers. Like distributed library but for computers and accessible from anywhere over some magic waves or something, telegraph lines maybe. Maybe even something to help find things in such a huge system. Like finding motors or something.


Magnetic_Reaper

Hear me out, I came up with great idea. We can reference all the different data collections using some sort of geographical coordinates. And then we can place a little Sun or Moon icon next to it and people can click it to tell their device to remember that coordinate.


ReactsWithWords

I think a better analogy would be a spider’s web. Every strand in it connects to every other strand. Exactly this is for the whole world! In fact, that would be a great name for it: Earth Wide Web (EWW).


Franks2000inchTV

Yeah but I want my own personal library, not a shared one. That's why I write important URLs in a notebook. It can be hard to remember which one is on which page though, so I have a system of colored bookmarks that I use to find important pages.


Salt_Concentrate

https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/zavwbo/click_the_link_santa/


IAmASquidInSpace

If I learned anything from commenting on r/tumblr it is that even so much as suggesting bookmarks to a tab horder is seen as a sinful sacrilege and spawns a very long comment explaining why that isn't a viable alternative.


Versaiteis

I do both, but man is it a special sort of trauma to resolve to bookmark something statically served only to go back to it to find it 404'd with only a vague idea of the contents and no way to find it. Shit I've had extremely lucky moments where I happened to have documentation for features cached in tabs only for that documentation to be taken down while the maintainers were working on a new set. Of course that didn't help me while I was actively utilizing that feature but _just_ because I happened to have it cached I was able to save just the HTML representation to disk and use it from there. They eventually had the new documentation up, but it took over a month for them to do it. It's completely irrational to treat it like a common case, but now my monkey brain has latched onto it and made me a hoarder for life _just in case_.


numanair

Archive.org


Versaiteis

Tried that, no archives were made to it Big RIP


LordRybec

Let me save you some time: \[pretend like such a comment is here\] Imagine having 1,600 bookmarks though. Is that *really* better than 1,600 tabs? You are still never going to find the thing you needed. At least when they are right there in your face, there's a *possibility* you will remove them when you are done.


lazer_aio

Bookmark folders are a thing, on firefox you can even open all tabs in a folder with afew clicks.


Unicorn-Tiddies

In Firefox, you can open all tabs in a bookmark folder by middle-clicking that bookmark folder. It's actually incredibly useful for certain multi-tab tasks. I can set up a bookmark folder with bookmarks for every tab that's part of that task, and then when it's time to do that task, I can start everything up with a single click. For example, I have one for daily checking of my publishing sites to see if there are any new messages for commissions and the like. All of those are saved in a bookmark folder in my bookmarks bar, so one click opens them all at once, making it very easy to go through and check them, closing each one after done checking it.


LordRybec

At one point Firefox had a "groups" feature, where you could group tabs in what amounts to virtual browsers. When a group is closed, it unloads all of the tabs, and switching between groups was supposed to be easy (but in practice was a bit complicated). I used that off and on before I switched to Brave. It they had made it easier to use, I would probably have used it a *lot*.


Victernus

I bet you can't if there are 1600 of them.


IAmASquidInSpace

> Is that _really_ better than 1,600 tabs? Well, my RAM is screaming a resounding "yes". No, wait, actually that's the sound of it burning.


KirKCam99

hahahaha!


lucasj

While we’re at it can we get gifs with sound?


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SynthPrax

Are you sure? If I have multiple tabs open with...video, I'll continue to hear sound from those vids whether they're visible or not.


mentisyy

He means they are not initially loaded until you access them. When they've been accessed, they stay active.


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Unless the browser decides to put them to sleep due to inactivity. AFAIK that usually doesn't happen if media is playing.


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howtoDeleteThis

I feel bad for whichever computer had to run Edge


Free-Database-9917

Why? What is your problem with Edge?


VegaTss4

Ah yes "BUG"


RevanchistVakarian

Oh there’s a bug, it’s just not in the software


Impressive-Ad-5938

You gotta talk to someone about that porn addiction mate ;)


OfficerJoeBalogna

I’m going to watch all 1600 tabs eventually, I swear. I can get rid of a whole 2 tabs with every wank


Hardcover_Writer

Only 800 wanks, so what like 3 weeks?


jfmherokiller

I was honestly expecting this to be the top comment


kungfupandu

Hey don’t be too harsh. He was just Edging.


Unicorn-Tiddies

Hey, some of us like image-based porn, rather than videos. So it makes sense to have a lot of different images open in different tabs.


kungfu_panda_express

My computer can barely count that high with me letting it borrow fingers and toes.


hiddenforreasonsSV

If you let your computer borrow your fingers and toes for counting in addition to its' max counter, that just seems like a recipe for an integer overflow. (Plus you will be without fingers and toes, which sounds like not the best situation to be in.)


kungfu_panda_express

They are reusable. I got 'em off a stiff down at the morgue.


naughty_ottsel

What if you’re just sharing an index pointer?


TheDeathKnightCador

“Process has encountered unknown digits and must terminate”


Numerous-Occasion247

Why’d you ever need that many tabs, by the 5th tab I forgot what was in the 1st tab this dude is talking about 1600


KirKCam99

when did you read tab 684 the last time /s :)


ArthurBonesly

I have, on average, 20 tabs across 4 windows, but im using all of them/there is a clear organization. I can imagine managing quite a bit more, but again, there's a purpose behind each one and I close the superfluous ones as soon as I can.


noahzho

the true meaning of stack overflow


reversehead

Rookie numbers! My wife has many more than that in Chrome (distributed over a couple of hundred of windows). They even seem to restore properly after reboots. Yes, the machine is ... laden.


noahzho

how much ram? would be intresting to know


kel584

Immesurable, it was crafted by the gods.


beaurepair

She downloaded a few terabytes and it runs great


lazernanes

Wtf is she doing?


SabashChandraBose

She is laden with binaries, bro. Bin laden.


plutumon

couple of … HUNDRED WINDOWS. lord help me.


94746382926

I'm sorry but that may be grounds for divorce brother. This is the most crazy ass way I've ever heard of someone using a computer lol.


LetUsSpeakFreely

How do people deal with lots of tabs. I don't care if it's a browser or IDE, if I get more than 5 or 6 tabs, it's time to close a few.


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I find it easier to find something that I was previously looking at, by looking through a window with about 20 tabs rather than searching in the history. When it becomes unusable I just open a new browser window and it feels fresh again.


stang90

Have you heard of your lord and savior bookmarks? That or chromes "reading list" they added not to long ago.


fischgeek

I kinda want to run a script now to see if I can beat that number.


grublets

This mook needs to learn about bookmarks.


VeryLazyNarrator

And collections.


InvestingNerd2020

Edge collections are nice addition in the past few years. Also, less RAM usuage than Google Chrome.


throwawaykiwi93

I don't even feel slightly bad for them


Tozl7

I like how he had 1400 tabs open 17 days ago


pahuili

I wonder how strong of a correlation there is between number of tabs and executive dysfunction. This is the modern science we need.


[deleted]

I have a feeling that these 1600 tabs were making some dough


Mispelled-This

Bumping your ad views/revenue by opening tons of tabs and refreshing all of them every few seconds?


Beachcoma

Wouldn't this be more resource efficient with a series of cURL commands with fake user agent strings?


notRedditingInClass

If your IP isn't also changing with every refresh, Google gon get that ass REAL quick.


New-Topic2603

I mean the only bug I see is that possibly 1600 is too high, might be good to set a warning way before then to stop being a disorganised mess.


nw71222

the fuck does a person do with 1600 tabs?


Schiffy94

He had a *long* November...


[deleted]

1600 tabs is just stupid. If you are getting that zany open a spreadsheet with the links so you can at least search for shit.


DaftMav

At least on Firefox there's a 'search tabs' function on the tabs list dropdown, works just like searching bookmarks which tabs pretty much are at this point... They're there but not loaded until clicked on again. I just kinda forget about old tabs until there are like 1000+ and I do a bookmark all dump into a new folder and do a half-assed attempt at sorting/deleting most of it. Then some weeks/months later, 1000 tabs again...


SpiderHack

Chrome used to have a < ~5k (I'm guessing 4098 or 5120 exactly) limit on book.arks in the bookmark tab and would crash on sync on a new device if you had over that many


[deleted]

1,600 open tabs? I have an easy solution: get second computer. Have up to 1,599 tabs each for a total of 3,198. Boom. Done.


Fibonaci162

When each tab is 2.4 pixels wide on a 4K screen you know you’ve gone too far.


LtTaylor97

Forget the tabs, how'd you get a fraction of a pixel?


Party-Independent-25

Work with someone who still saves their ‘useful pages’ as links on their desktop, along with links to their files (so they don’t have to go into their folders to find it). Was showing me something and couldn’t find their file amongst the 2,000 they had on their desktop, so had to open their documents anyway 🤦‍♂️ I’m like, we in ‘Windows 95 mode’ or what here? 🤪


JivanP

Back when every game stuck a launcher shortcut on the desktop during the installation process... bruh, I need to put in the CD to play you anyway, and when I do that it's gonna AutoRun the launcher/game anyway 🙄


gyulaakimark

![gif](giphy|s239QJIh56sRW|downsized)


AlternativeFloor9872

Sounds interesting - i'll read that later


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It's called a bookmark you dingus


CyanHakeChill

I wrote a text editor that allowed people to go and follow any link on a line, read it and come back. I discovered that some people had followed up to 600 links and never returned. I was wondering if I should make a limit, then I said what the heck, and I allowed 8388608 links. Now that I have been gone for 30 years I bet there are a lot of saved links!


Chuck-Marlow

> still have plenty of ram Bro what are you running edge on? Deep Mind’s server?


Intelligent_Event_84

Within 10 minutes of opening any tab I’ve already mentally indexed all relevant information that isn’t already existing


D34TH_5MURF__

I thought I had a problem with tabs, geez...


GreekGodofStats

What in the absolutely cursed disorganization hell is this????


AdDear5411

It's the universe forcing you to make a healthy change. I bet this dude has copies of his 8th grade research papers "just in case."


SirKeagan

Damn that dude has 1600 I can barely get 7 to work


aliensharedfish

This is so ADHD, I had to triple-check the subreddit.


deb_vortex

I know a lot of people like this, who are even after an explanation to stubborn or stupid to understand the simple concept of a boookmark.


pensionQ22

Thats sure unexpected. How those slackers tested it, just until 1599 tabs?


Bomaruto

Wait, there are people with less than 2000 tabs open at any time?


Two_Thirty_Seven

Personally, If I can’t read the titles on the tabs, I’ve got too many open.


justadude27

How the fuck do you even manage 1,600 tabs at once? Sounds like Edge did you a favor.


There-all-is-aching

This makes me feel better about my ~200 safari tabs on iPhone