So figure out how you want to prioritize your time, and (sadly) throw away everything else, or save it to some long term storage (like a text or word document). It's easier said than done of course.
Well, it only takes a couple of clicks for me to save all tabs using the "bookmark all tabs", so it's almost easier done than said.
You just open links in new tabs and keep them open to read them later. It's like having bookmarks, except
- you don't have to save the links as bookmarks
- the pages don't interfere with your actual (long-term) bookmarks
- you don't have to remove the pages from your bookmarks when you're done with them
My tabs seem to be at least 90% from youtube. I'm subscribed to several channels, and since I only watch 1-2 hours per day, new interesting videos come out faster than I can watch them. Eventually I end up with 500 tabs, which starts slowing down Firefox, so I end up having to bookmark all those tabs (lol), and I never have time to watch all those videos or websites, but I save them anyway. Maybe if Ray Kurzweil is right, in a few decades we can extend our lifespan to a 1000 years and speed up our brains, so that we can absorb information faster, lol.
This is why I prefer reading to watching - it's faster.
So figure out how you want to prioritize your time, and (sadly) throw away everything else, or save it to some long term storage (like a text or word document). It's easier said than done of course.
Well, it only takes a couple of clicks for me to save all tabs using the "bookmark all tabs", so it's almost easier done than said.
TIL about Bookmark all tabs!
But I meant the 'prioritizing your time' part is the easier said than done part, to be clear.
My tabs seem to be at least 90% from youtube. I'm subscribed to several channels, and since I only watch 1-2 hours per day, new interesting videos come out faster than I can watch them. Eventually I end up with 500 tabs, which starts slowing down Firefox, so I end up having to bookmark all those tabs (lol), and I never have time to watch all those videos or websites, but I save them anyway. Maybe if Ray Kurzweil is right, in a few decades we can extend our lifespan to a 1000 years and speed up our brains, so that we can absorb information faster, lol.
You must have a ton of bookmarks... Just curious, how many do you have?
You must have a ton of bookmarks... Just curious, how many do you have?
3100. And if I remember correctly, the most tabs I had open at one time was 800-900. But I didn't start this "bookmarking all tabs" thing until a couple of months ago, so earlier when I hit 500 tabs, I just said f#¤k it and closed everything.
I was banging my head into the desk over this the other day too. I found an extension, Back to Backspace, which restores the functionality (and also Shift-Backspace to go forward) but I'd rather not have a script active which can read all webpages I go to and inject code. Considering switching to Firefox.
Masterjun wrote:
Sounds like a good solution to me.
It's not a good solution for several reasons.
1) If you accidentally go back, you can just go forward again. Like all modern browsers, Chrome saves form field data, so the change is unnecessary to begin with. This hasn't been a problem for several years.
2) Alt-Left/Right is a two-hand command, unlike Backspace. Instead of holding a finger over backspace, I need to let go of my mouse and find the key combination on my keyboard, and return a hand to the mouse again.
3) The Alt-Left/Right command is already used for rotating the monitor display on many graphics cards. Since Chrome cannot reconfigure hotkeys (?!) this conflict is not easily solved.
Since you are using the mouse all the time when browsing anyway, then why not use the back button/entry in the context menu?
(OTOH, at least in Firefox it's extraordinarily aggravating that the back button isn't actually there if you happen to right-click on an image or link. Inconsistent, changing menus are the most braindead idea ever invented, especially when what changes is the existence of one of the most commonly used entries in the menu.)
An even better solution is to get a mouse with extra buttons. Those basically always have two buttons that are automatically mapped to back and forward in browsers.
Since you are using the mouse all the time when browsing anyway, then why not use the back button/entry in the context menu?
Because, like you said, the context menu changes depending on where the mouse happens to be. If it's over a link or an image or an input box, it doesn't have the option to navigate Back and I end up accidentally opening a picture in a new tab instead.
Also, when going back three times (for example in a topic with linked posts) it becomes very apparent how much slower right click context menu is than pressing a key.
I liked the mouse swipes in Opera, they did pretty much what I wanted, but Chrome doesn't have those.
So figure out how you want to prioritize your time, and (sadly) throw away everything else, or save it to some long term storage (like a text or word document). It's easier said than done of course.
Well, it only takes a couple of clicks for me to save all tabs using the "bookmark all tabs", so it's almost easier done than said.
Legit question: Anyone ever seem to notice RAM usage for Chrome gradually go up despite overall low amount of tabs? Seems to go away if I completely close Chrome and reopen the same tabs, but what's causing the leak?
Legit question: Anyone ever seem to notice RAM usage for Chrome gradually go up despite overall low amount of tabs? Seems to go away if I completely close Chrome and reopen the same tabs, but what's causing the leak?
It's possible that it's not a bug, but a consequence of a garbage collection mechanism.
