It seems like a really low number of things to sort. If they added two zeros to that, maybe it would be impressive. In my browser 400 per 60s would mean, that I have to wait almost 10 minutes, until they are all sorted.
There's always gotta be that guy that will come up with the most unreasonable and unbelievable usage of any tool, just to show how special they are.
No, you don't have 4,000 browser tabs open, nobody believes that.
More on the topic, since the title mentions GPT, I imagine it sorts them based on the content, like categories.
So 3900 tabs.
I like using tabs because they keep the history of each tab. Bookmarks don't do that. If I just kept bookmarks, if the page went down I wouldn't be able to go back, and maybe find another way to find an archive of that page.
In Firefox I can search for tabs by typing, "% searchterm" into the url bar. Then I can right click on the back button to see how I arrived at a particular page.
If I know I'll want to come back to where I was, I'll mostly duplicate the tab (thus keeping the history), and then click on the link.
Alternatively I'll click a link using the middle mouse button to open the link in a new tab, but that doesn't keep the history.
I try to keep all tabs for a particular project or topic in one or two windows but clearly I'm very bad at doing that.
Firefox only loads background tabs when you click on them, so it's good for this kind of tab abuse.
My PC has 64Gb RAM and a 1Tb SSD, why should I ever have to close a tab??
Also... WHY?
I know it seems hard to believe, but for a single topic its not unusual to have 10+ tabs open, when I do research on a topic I'm often hitting 20-30 tabs, and the more work you do the more you have open.
100 tabs per topic, lets say, and someone interested in 40 topics, I could see 4k tabs as reasonable. I would bet they only have 10 tabs actually activated/loaded, but.
I often get into the 30-50 tab range, and the majority of those are unused and I have to do a purge because I’ve long forgotten the context where I need them. I can believe someone might do similarly with more tabs, but no that many more XD.
I also use an extension to group my tabs into categories, which makes it much easier to handle the amount of tabs.
Also you can right-click the back button to see the history of each tab. Usually that begins with a google search that reminds me what the context was.
I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window, or two windows if I want to tile them to view both. Obviously, I'm very bad at respecting such limits. :-)
Have you tried tree style tabs?
I get nervous messing with it too much in case I lose all my tabs.
I know I can manually backup/restore the file from the Firefox profile folder but I'd rather not mess with it.
Can anyone verify that tree style tabs works with an absurd number of tabs?
I use tabs to keep the history, so when I come back to that tab, I can right-click the back button and see how I got to that page.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...
As you can see from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwgyzX-76g the browser becomes completely unusable with a few thousand tabs, and the experience is massively degraded way before that.
You also would run out of RAM way before opening 4,000 tabs, with most consumer boards supporting only a maximum of 128GB of RAM.
At work now so can't check but my PC at home has 64Gb RAM and up to half of that is used by Firefox.
I've noticed it gets unresponsive over 160 windows. I currently have 156 open (it tells you the number when you exit Firefox. Each of those windows has at least 20 tabs.
Firefox is good for an excessive number of tabs because it only loads the tabs when you activate them. Chrome is a memory hog.