On 2014-06-21 08:02, C wrote:
I've seen you mention this before. Seriously? 200 tabs? on a browser?
I may have a hundred. I don't know of a way to get an actual count, even less a listing.
What the heck are you, a mutant octopus? How do you manage (never mind the RAM requirements) to actually find anything or even use 200 or dear lord.. 400 tabs in a browser? What are you doing that requires that insane level of open tabs/webpages? Isn't is simply faster to open the webpage when you need it vs loading things down to such an extreme level?
You are right that it is difficult to find the already opened tab. However, if you start to type the same address on a new one, FF offers to jump you to the opened one instead. Faster to open a new one? Yes, if you remember the name. Reasons? Well, I may have left the page at mid-read and want to continue later. I may want to have a second look. I may open a tab, just look at the tittle, and decide to read it later, when I have time, but not close the tab so that I see it and remember (but then I don't remember to look). Or... for instance, when doing a project with Lazarus, I need to look at the documentation for different units, functions, examples, etc, so that soon I end having a dozen tabs opened for the different section of the code I'm working on, because going back and forth in the index is cumbersome. Similarly when working on a translation, I may have several web pages of dictionaries opened, methodology docs, project coordination pages, etc. Several tabs. I may have a window with pending to read links I get from different people, lists, forums, media. Often different windows for the different sources. I may have a window investigating about some commercial product, with a tab opened for each interesting hit in google about it. And as I switch (unfinished) tasks, I do not close the related FF windows, because I do not need to, and because FF does not really free that memory till you restart it. So, it is about one FF window for each task I do, with a few tabs each related to that task. As simple as that.
I often have several tabs open in a browser, but by about 15 or 20, it becomes a huge pain to deal with. My mind is boggling (among other things) to try and comprehend a workflow that needs 400 browser tabs... there has to be a better solution.
I would like a window with a list of opened FF windows and tabs, yes. And a search feature. Yes, it is difficult. At times I do cleanups, and what I do is copy the link addresses in gnome "tomboy notes", with a brief description of each link, and a note per window or related task, then I close those FF windows. I find this more useful than keeping FF bookmarks, being free form and searchable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)