I currently have 153 browser tabs open so maybe my resolution for 2023 is to reduce that.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I don’t even know how to see how many I have. My number should certainly decrease, too.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I resolved by going anonymous by default, once you close the browser all is gone.

If you can’t do that, I recommend using some extension to limit the open tabs.

For my tabs before that, I’d usually go around the 500 or more.

On my phone thought I still see a smiley on the tabs since I’ve reached 100+. 😎

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Cleaning the browser’s profile on every reboot helps a lot. 🥴

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I don’t. 😅 I might accumulate quite a lot of tabs throughout the day (especially at work), but eventually, meh, hardly any of them matter. If something really is important, I store a link at the appropriate place. Let’s say some web site is relevant to a bit of code I’m writing, then it ends up as a comment in said code …

Other than that, I have a bookmarks file with stuff I’m regularly visiting.

And that’s it.

Which brings me to the important question: What are those 153 tabs of yours? 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Huh … well, to be fair, I do have a “read later” text file. I never read any of the stuff in it, but maybe, one day, when I have the time … 🤪

If you don’t read it now (or at least this evening), then you probably never will.

Since the popularization of browsers with tabs in 1999, that has been a problem for intelectual people, I think.

I’m trying to live a digital minimalism (whatever that means, I’ve had long conversations about the definition), and having at most 5 tabs open has been challenging to me, but I try.
I’m looking forward to a soft limit of, let’s say, 7-10 tabs. If you get your screen full, you should receive a warning… More than 15-25 would be simply not allowed. It’s against the interest of browsers designers (use it more), but I think there should be some extension for it.

Now I have those endless text files with hundreds of links, more like a black hole than a Reading list. I say also, the habit of cleaning your lists is as good as making it bigger.

Other useful habits are, trying to write more than reading, avoid looking for new links until you read or delete previous ones, and not subscribing to a new mailing list until I unsuscribe another. It has been a similar pain than to buy new clothes.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci that’s a great idea. A friend of mine made an extension that killed random tabs, but I don’t recall the exact details.
I think killing the older tabs could be good enough, or randomly between tabs older than X days. Perhaps with the last 10 tabs, you would notice. IDK

What browser do you use? (Over here, Edge, Firefox, and Kiwi)