Comment by millzlane | Hacker News Reader

Comment by millzlane | Hacker News Reader

I always see this behavior with young SDEs. But using chrome. And they are militant about not restarting their browser when they are clearly having browser issues. I always ask why don't you bookmark these things? Or how can you possibly see which tab is which? While they take a whole minute to bring back up thentab they had open.

As someone who doesn't even use bookmarks and instead just relies on the awesome bars history...why do you keep 100's of tabs open and not bookmarked?

This person can solve their "problem" by just saving the open session to a new folder in the bookmark toolbar. And never have this happen again. They can even call it memory lane.

If the browser can keep thousands of tabs without ill effects, then, honestly, what does it matter if it's tabs or bookmarks? It's all down to user's preference. Tabs have their upsides over bookmarks.

I usually have dozens / hundreds of tabs open. I restart chrome every day, so I don’t really care about the tabs themselves per se. But the fastest, context free way to navigate to a new site is to open a new tab using the hot key and then typing a url / search query. As a result, you end up with a lot of tabs. And why would you spend time closing old tabs? Also, it often happens that the contents of those tabs proves useful later, e.g. the last stack overflow post you looked at probably contained something useful, etc.

I don't bookmark much either, I just remember a snippet from the url or a path and let auto complete find it from history.

I think I fall into this category…but I use vimium extension and it has a feature where you can fuzzy search open tabs so I just use this. Now people who have 100s of tabs open and switch by clicking through them; now thats crazy to me

I really wish more IDE features were built into OS/browsers.

Using the % modifier/prefix in the address bar searches open tab titles only.

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