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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My phone tells me I have ∞ open.

I'm not sure how to easily count on my computer (firefox), I have vertical tabs on, I have to scroll, and many of the tabs are in collapsed groups...

And before you ask, yes all the tabs are important and necessary.

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

PC 0

Laptop 0

Phone 2

Y'all are psychopaths

[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 14 points 1 month ago

Look. I don't come here to be verbally abused.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know. Firefox displays an infinity symbol after 99.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

And I may have god knows how many inactive tabs. Ha!

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

All of them.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

I have just tidied up a bit… my phone was on ~470ish tabs. (Btw, did you know that the limit in safari on iOS is 500 tabs?)

Now my phone has 50.

[–] doctorbirb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Phone - 60 πŸ’€

Desktop - 5

Laptop - 0 because it is off lol

[–] braindamagebuddy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

phone ~50

tablet ~30

pc ~20

work pc ~100

I used to be a no tabs person too, what happened ;-;

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Only 29.

Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab.

But yeah. That's on the low side compared to usual for me.

(Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how does it do with videos using your browser?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My experience is that the performance of videos depends a lot on how much of the screen the video takes up. More so than on the quality setting (480p, 720p, 1080p). Usually when I want to watch a video, I limit it to about 1/4 of the area of my 1920x1080 screen. But YouTube is pretty watchable. I don't think even when you select something like 720p@60fps or whatever that it ever actually gets up to 60fps, and sometimes the parts that don't compress as well drop a few frames (strobing in particular does that), but it's really not bad if you're ok with not doing full-screen.

Also, it depends where the video is hosted. If the JS is really light on the page, it's way more performant. If the JS is really heavy, I sometimes have to wait tens of seconds for it to render the first frame.

But also, this Raspberry Pi is mostly my Lemmy box. Not my main box.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly, the stack necessary to play videos in your browser is no joke and I've always used it as a litmus test.

It's not fool proof -- as you pointed out -- it's probably the closest thing to a litmus test there is

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, I'm impressed that your rpi can handle that many tabs. Mine can only handle a few loaded pages at a time

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My experience is that it has more to do with what's loaded in the tab than how many tabs are open. One tab can cause everything to run at like 1fps if it's bloated. ("Graphic design is my passion" kind of pages with tons of animations, usually.) But 100 Lemmy-UI tabs is no problem at all.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

four, anything more than a handful makes me anxious

[–] helix@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Same, that's why I open more than 100 on my phone so the number disappears 😬

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a tab group on my desktop with tools to maintain my Plex server. I think there are 4 tabs in it. That's collapsed, but there. Then I'll have the one tab I'm actually using, often a second tab on another monitor streaming music or video.

0 tabs on phone.

0 tabs on laptop.

Reading through these comments... There's a lot of psychos in here. Some of y'all have hundreds of tabs open. Why?

[–] NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Phone: 59 Desktop: 400+ Luckily Firefox doesn't actually load all of those

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

1 tab on my phone

18 tabs on my laptop across 4 virtual desktops

[–] mrmorganiser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Phone = 1701

Laptop = 6

Desktop = 0

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Phone: 71 (largely grouped, maybe 20 "independent" ones)
Desktop: ~700, spit into 6 windows, and grouped inside those windows, Vivaldi is a life saver if you're hording

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a bookmark folder called Zombie Tabs that I periodically tidy the zombie tabs into

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Also there's a FF extension called Tab Session Manager that removes the problem of keeping hold of tabs entirely

PC = 1 Mobile phone = yes

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

On laptop, go until browser crashes in a loop.

One time, had to reboot three times so I could close some of the windows before they locked up.

[–] dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hate to say it but I have probably 500 tabs opened combined

[–] Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 3 points 1 month ago

cant check laptop and pc but phone (waterfox) says ∞

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Phone: 169 in Safari, inf in Firefox Computers: uhhhhhhh probably several thousand? It would take quite a while to get a number.

[–] Jela@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

Phone: 72 πŸ’€ Laptop: ~25

[–] kugel7c@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Phone just says ∞ PC is 0 atm usually like 3-20

[–] Newhere@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

And I was thinking I am really bad with my 6 opened... πŸ˜…

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

In the browser you ask? 194 + 9 incognito.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

iPhone: 499 Laptop: 0

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

phone: 57 laptop: ~3ish

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 points 4 weeks ago

Actually only 263 at the moment on my phone.

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Shhh... We don't talk about those

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Why did tabs replace bookmarks? Do you not value your RAM? No, I don't care how many gigabytes of RAM you have, it doesn't invalidate my point. I have lots of RAM too.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago

i think modern browsers (at least firefox) doesn't keep background tabs all active in memory. my friend has like 200 tabs but memory usage isn't that huge.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Currently just two, the tab for this page and another for Sekibanki's theme from Touhou 14.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

My phone just shows the infinity symbol for tab count. Probably like a hundred on my desktop

[–] mcSlibinas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

1 on pc 1 on phone 95% of time. 4 or 5 when buying things and can be 8-9 when searching software related answers.

[–] calidris@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Nihilore@quokk.au 2 points 1 month ago
[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Phone = 69 Computer = I don't know

Work computer: 52 across 3 browsers, with 4 total 'tab groups'

Home computer: 22 with 1 browser and 3 'tab groups'

Phone: 0 (unless the new tab page counts that opens when I open my browser)

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