I know it's hardly anything worth "flexing", but I have hundreds of tabs on every browser on all my devices, easily (and regrettably) totalling a few thousand overall. I have had to install new browsers because reopening a crashed browser would freeze my computer.
The reason I'm posting this here? Because I want people to know how terrible of an experience it is. No, not having the tabs open themselves. But the frequent app crashes and hangs. The time chrome crashed and lost all tabs (iPadOS so no ctr shift t. And it was triggered by opening a link so the "restore" button disapeared immediately.)
I do not know if anyone on Google's Chrome, or Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox teams are reading this - but if you are, you should know that tab management on all types of devices - be it android or a windows laptop - sucks to say the least, and is buggy/broken to be more accurate. Chrome throws a smiley face which isn't cute when you want to actually see a number. (Fortunately kiwi browser - my designated music browser - tells me I have 700-something tabs despite being chromium based.) I cannot open the tab switcher in chrome (android) for a solid few minutes unless I want the app to freeze, or more realistically, to delete/misplace some tabs. (I.e Tabs get randomly rearranged, and the tab grouping feature doesn't help.)
You end up learning "tricks" to avoid upsetting your browser. "Don't newtab for the first x seconds, instead open a link from Google search and it'll be faster" "Don't bother typing anything at all in the search field, auto complete doesn't work until the tab-smiley comes on which takes 20 seconds in chrome canary and 2 minutes on regular chrome"
On windows browsers hog memory until the system slows to a crawl. Safari is the least terrible, despite the questionable 500 tab limit navigation is still fluid.
As to why I don't close tabs - because when you think 20 different things you want to search (thanks ADHD) and haven't read any of them, you'll want to go back later when you have time.
(Btw if anyone from any of the browser's teams is interested in seeing a live demo of this in a "real life" use-case I'll be more than happy to demonstrate what "ultra-high" organic page use looks like.)
> The time chrome crashed and lost all tabs (iPadOS so no ctr shift t. And it was triggered by opening link so the "restore" button disapeared immediately.)
That's actually what pushed me to Firefox. After loosing ~50 tabs (yet again) I simply said f that, now I have a clean state and installed Firefox. I've never lost any tabs since.
Do you mean Firefox on iOS? Do you know if they have auto-translate?
One of the hidden "pros" of using chrome is that as a non-dutch speaking guy in the Netherlands chrome actually can translate pages 80% of the time. I almost don't use my iPad for browsing as safari (on iOS 14) cannot and chrome is a little quicker than a dead horse.
Have you noticed that todo lists tend to progress a bit like ticket queues for long lived projects? The oldest open ticket is usually from the day the ticket system was founded and the last one from five minutes ago. And there is a monotonic increase in the number of open tickets across any span of time you care to zoom in on.
Chrome crashing and losing all the tabs was the only way to keep them under control, now with bugs fixed and a session manager extension, I can always get them back.
I used an extension called OneTab that had a few thousand of my tabs on my old laptop... it took that extension crashing twice (probably burning 4~5k tabs) before I learnt my lesson and backed up all my tabs to a txt file.
Vivaldi(chromium) has really bad Tab session handling. They used to lose tabs all the time, so instead of migrating to SQLite database for tabs (sqlite is very crash durable) just like they store passwords/cookies /etc tey did this elaborate Rube Goldberg mechanism of rewriting 5-10MB files every time you click on something :( https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/vbh7zg/viva...
Whats more they store Tab thumbnails as Base64 encoded jpgs in Json text files :( They are burning SSD endurance for no reason :(
Safari has a very low limit of tabs open. I don't manage the tabs of my phone at all, I just let them pile up, and eventually I always hit the limit. Thankfully there's an option that automatically deletes all tabs that you haven't opened in a month.
The reason I'm posting this here? Because I want people to know how terrible of an experience it is. No, not having the tabs open themselves. But the frequent app crashes and hangs. The time chrome crashed and lost all tabs (iPadOS so no ctr shift t. And it was triggered by opening a link so the "restore" button disapeared immediately.)
I do not know if anyone on Google's Chrome, or Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox teams are reading this - but if you are, you should know that tab management on all types of devices - be it android or a windows laptop - sucks to say the least, and is buggy/broken to be more accurate. Chrome throws a smiley face which isn't cute when you want to actually see a number. (Fortunately kiwi browser - my designated music browser - tells me I have 700-something tabs despite being chromium based.) I cannot open the tab switcher in chrome (android) for a solid few minutes unless I want the app to freeze, or more realistically, to delete/misplace some tabs. (I.e Tabs get randomly rearranged, and the tab grouping feature doesn't help.)
You end up learning "tricks" to avoid upsetting your browser. "Don't newtab for the first x seconds, instead open a link from Google search and it'll be faster" "Don't bother typing anything at all in the search field, auto complete doesn't work until the tab-smiley comes on which takes 20 seconds in chrome canary and 2 minutes on regular chrome"
On windows browsers hog memory until the system slows to a crawl. Safari is the least terrible, despite the questionable 500 tab limit navigation is still fluid.
As to why I don't close tabs - because when you think 20 different things you want to search (thanks ADHD) and haven't read any of them, you'll want to go back later when you have time.
(Btw if anyone from any of the browser's teams is interested in seeing a live demo of this in a "real life" use-case I'll be more than happy to demonstrate what "ultra-high" organic page use looks like.)