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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Have you heard of bookmarks? There's even a bookmark bar that is right up there near the tabs. You can even edit the bookmark and delete the name so it's just a tiny icon on the bookmarks bar.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    But I don’t like bookmarks, they’re way more work. Sure, if I’m trying to get the best performance possible, I’ll close my browser (all tabs will reopen when I start the browser again), but I mostly need a fuckload of tabs and a word processor, so it doesn’t normally impact my usage to have a bunch of tabs open.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    People who have a hard time wrangling tabs will just have the same problem with bookmarks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's not the same problem though because they're not actively draining your memory.

    Maybe browsers have made that less of a problem, but only because so many people were misusing tabs in the first place. So they had to make them more like bookmarks so it wasn't strangling people's PC

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Yes, but the OP in this thread is talking more about the mental and organizational aspect of tab/bookmarking, not RAM. Someone who isn’t great at managing tabs will also have a hard time managing bookmarks.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I just find it really laborious to organize bookmarks properly when you get into the hundreds, and it’s more work to delete and easier to forget which in practice just means I still have decades old bookmarks I’m not interested in anymore. Tabs at least are in the way so I can remember to close them. I do use a few extensions to make it all a little easier to manage when I do deep dives into something and “need” ~50 new tabs for a little while.

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