uhhh well let's see
2,893 tabs open
actually on second thought let's not (god it's worse than i thought)
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Huh...I actually thought I had it pretty bad; I had at one point almost 100 tabs, but then also on another PC of mine that I share with a sibling, I ALSO have lots of tabs open (we regularly look up movies and anime, but we've begun to noting them down instead, especially as sometimes youtube pages just 'die' and the movie we wanted to remember for later gets lost in the ether).
That’s just one tab group in one browser.
No, I will not elaborate further.
After going through this thread, I'm beginning to feel less guilty about the number of tabs I got open, lol
I plead the 5th
Mostly monitoring the situation
Weather, email inboxes, group chat, work schedule, a bunch for a gun I'm considering, some other things I'm thinking about buying, and the backend of my website.
When I'm done with one tab, I move on to the next and clear it out as I go. Rarely do I have an open tab that hasn't been active in the last ~5 min.
My bookmark toolbar, on the other hand...
I don't even know why I'm keeping mine open; some of them may be possibly a year old by this point and you'd think I'd just give up on them
I need to get around to closing them up and trying to go back to only have one or two open at a time as well
On my phone I have so many webnovels open the tab count shows ∞.
On my computer, I have one window with a shitload of 4anime.gg tabs and one window with a bunch of game wiki pages and hexbear. I am sitting at 6 of my 32 gigs of ram used with my browser, torrent client, and a few other utilities running.
I am sitting at 6 of my 32 gigs of ram used with my browser, torrent client, and a few other utilities running.
I'm not sure how much of my ram firefox uses, but every now and then I have to restart it because it suddenly starts lagging like mad and my task manager says it's occupying tons of ram.
That's a Windows problem, stop using Windows.
Currently open tabs:
- This thread
- Another Hexbear thread
- My profile page on Hexbear
- My subscriptions feed on another Lemmy instance
- Anilist page for the Binchou-tan anime
- A Matrix chat
- A Tinariwen song I'm listening to
- Dutch Wikipedia article for voiceless retroflex affricate
face the wall, you bring shame to your whole family
i only have tabs open that i'm actively using. Currently 1 for hexbear, 1 for the gam TR-49 which I have running, and 1 for WPS because I wanted to find a way to get my printer online without having to constantly go back and type the password using 2 buttons which takes for goddamned ever and only works sometimes.
I have no idea how some of you folks manage it; don't you ever open a youtube video, think to yourself 'I'm not in the mood RIGHT NOW, but maybe later?'
I also recall when I was working on my novel I had like 10-15 pages open regarding research on ancient Ireland and Irish mythology (ON TOP of the many, many other pages), and unfortunately when I finally got too lazy to keep working on the novel and put it down, I kept those tabs open for.....what, years? At some point I had to accept I wasn't going to use them again and just had to close them.
normal stuff, why?
I saw a badpost about people having tons of tabs open all the time, and as someone with lots of tabs that got me curious about what other folks had on their innumerable tabs
Ah yeah thats fair. Just normal stuff. 300-700 tabs on average.
tabs are people too you cant just leave them behind
on my second monitor i keep a waterfox window with a tab for lo-fi hip-hop and a tab for a loop of rain ambience, i listen to both at once while i read
during gdq i'll have a twitch tab open with the stream on
on my main monitor i pop a waterfox window when i need one, then close it when i'm done
for example i currently have 2 grad tabs open and a tumblr tab, all three will die within the hour
gdq
Yoooooo, you mean the game developers thing? I don't know much about it but I've seen GDQ videos of famous developers telling really cool stories about the games they developed. I love those videos!
all three will die within the hour
I try to make sure I don't keep opening new tabs all the time, and I'm trying to finish up whatever I open up so I can close it rather than add it to my gigantic list (or gigantic relatively speaking; some folks here have some really large amount of tabs up)
well theres my fanfiction browser with infinity tabs, i feel like that needs no explanation.
my regular browser has a forum, another forum, a secret third forum, a couple github pages that i forgot to close, a blog about medieval gardening that i meant to read but didn't, instructions for making rice wine that ill get around to following eventually, parseword, the web version of a book about clojure, and god only knows whats hanging out in the inactive tab pile. theres only 23 tabs though so... ¯\(ツ)/¯
Me: Very boring stuff like movies, anime and maybe a Hasan video
You: (Imagine I put an emoji of planet earth; I can't find one (there's one of earth with a hammer and sickle over it but I feel that doesn't convey the same message))
You sound like you got a lot of hobbies you enjoy either practicing or reading about; I spend most of my time just basically watching youtube vids or netflix (I used to have a lot more hobbies about five or six years ago, then I kind of got bored of everything and just became a bit reclusive)
ahaha im actually incredibly boring and just have adhd lol. aside from the forums (which are 90% of my social interaction tbh) everything else is probably going to wind up getting closed without me actually going anywhere with it.
nothing wrong with watching yt and netflix! tbh thats basically all i did from 2020 till like. mid-last year. ive only really started getting back into hobby type stuff in the last 6 months or so, and its still incredibly hit-or-miss.
what's something you watched lately that you liked?
I actually kinda liked the last season of one punch man; sure, not as well animated as the previous two seasons (not by a long shot), but I still enjoyed it.
oh nice! ive heard good things about one punch man, so ill have to check it out.