23 replies

1. Andrew 3 min later

   @zachleat 13 is still uncomfortably high

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @andrew I think this reveals which half you are 😅

2. dan leatherman 5 min later

   @zachleat do you count mobile and desktop

   1. Zach Leatherman 7 min later

      @danleatherman these numbers were just mobile

3. Colby Fayock @ spacejelly.dev 24 min later

   @zachleat after seeing someone mention mobile I realized I have 2 different tab personalities

   Desktop I'm a monster

   Mobile always less than 5 (which I then clean)

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @colbyfayock Jekyll and Hyde!!

   2. Hans Gerwitz 5 hr later

      @colbyfayock @zachleat same. Arguably the primary purpose of my laptop is tab incubation.

4. Nicolas Hoizey 31 min later

   @zachleat what about ~3000 tabs? 😅

   Ok, not all at once, thanks to the Simple Tabs Groups extension.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @nhoizey oh my god

      1. Charles Roper 6 hr later

         @zachleat @nhoizey Love simple tab groups extension. Discard a group to unload the tabs from memory but still in the browser. Archive a group to completely unload the tabs from the browser (effectively bookmarked). Pop open the vertical sidebar to manage them all. I start a fresh group pretty much every day. Less stressful than having to close tabs, but more manageable than keeping them open. I can quite understand how you've got to 3k.

         1. Nicolas Hoizey 7 hr later

            @charlesroper exactly how I use it! 👍
            @zachleat

5. James Finley 1 hr later

   @zachleat I’m the later.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @thefinley same, same.

6. Chris Brailsford 2 hr later

   @zachleat I’m terrible about tabs on both desktop and mobile, to be honest. It used to be the point where my computer would shut itself down when I pushed it to the brink from too many tabs open 😅😬

7. Kiran J. Holla 2 hr later

   @zachleat I will see your 217 and raise you 550

8. Sally Lait 4 hr later

   @zachleat My husband only opens what he needs, and closes all his windows every time he stops using the laptop?! So weird.

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @sally my partner is that way too, inbox zero and all—weird

9. Andy Davies 4 hr later

   @zachleat I've got three broswer windows open on the laptop with a couple hundred tabs open… then there's my phone and my iPad browsers too!

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 hr later

      @andydavies this window to tab ratio is somehow way more stressful to me? 😅

      1. Andy Davies 5 hr later

         @zachleat Most personal stuff is in Safari, then there's a Chrome window for work and a second one for gmail ('cos it and Safari seem to fight)

         1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

            @andydavies but how do you see the favicons when the tabs are tiny slivers

            1. Andy Davies 6 hr later

               @zachleat Safari keeps the tab at the size of the favicon, just have to scroll the tab bar instead!

10. Tommi 🤯 5 hr later

    @zachleat The answer is @omnivore