A hint that it’s time to install a second web browser.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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And have another 500 there until the third one.
Maybe the new one will respect real-world use cases and not enforce such silly limitations just because the developers got lazy
This is a UI problem, not a you or I problem. Browser makers never figured out how to do bookmarks properly, so tabs became a bad reinvention of bookmarks.
Look at how some students work with their textbooks: they fill the book with tons of little sticky bookmarks, colour coded and everything. You can write on them too!
So why are these better than tabs or bookmarks on web browsers? Because they’re organized per-book! Put one book aside and grab another and it becomes a whole new space to put your stickies! Browser tabs do let you do that with multiple windows or tab groups, but it’s too clunky and not spatial/tactile the way books are, so people don’t remember what’s in those other tabs.
That's why I use Vivaldi. Between its workspaces (different books) I can have the relevant tabs and tab stacks for when I eventually need them because I'll never find them again or remember them in some bookmark tool. They also have tab memory management so anything I haven't opened in x amount of time, the process is killed so my browser doesn't implode.
Zen browser does exactly this with workspaces which each have their tabs, with the option to pin some of those and/or put them in folders. So if you wanna get away from chromium it should not be too much of a change (not to mention the many things Zen does great over base firefox)
How does it do with memory management? Before Vivaldi implemented it, it would obviously get laggy after a while.
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i like and feel slightly judged by the fact that firefox will just use the ♾️ symbol at the 100th tab and stop counting
a coworker (60+) once complained that her phone is slow. i checked chrome, and the tab icon just reads
:D
I like to think of it as the number is too large to be displayed properly because it's 3 digits.
I use it as a talisman to keep the overly fastidious at a safe distance.
Well, is it?
Is it safe to eat blood curd?
Don’t leave us hanging.
Just looked it up, the change of gagging and vomiting seems real. Not sure if it's safe though.
This is why I use Firefox focus, just purge it all each time, I can't stand the tabs
that notification can go straight to hell while i open the 375th
Read the error log
OP has 500 tabs open
oh i see, i was so angered by the message that i misread it. classic.
My dumbass clicked on the picture and kept trying to use the menu.
Someone has an astronomical amount of RAM. Clearly, this is from the distant past.
Mobile browsers don't really keep the websites loaded in all tabs like desktop ones
Well this looks like an iOS screenshot so not THAT much RAM lol
But also I'm pretty sure after some inactivity the tabs get unloaded from RAM. Also whenever you close the browser.
This is correct, this is why pretty much every tab you go back to in Safari will need to reload first. It only keeps the thumbnail.
This is the one flavor of ADHD meme that completely baffles me. On desktop, the second my tabs start getting squished down, I have to pare it back down. On my phone, I'm less diligent, but if I'm approaching double digits, I zero it all out. Feels like it's a holdover from growing up with crappy computers.
I really dislike using a browser on my phone. I have Firefox always set to auto delete everything when I close it. Mobile browsing is only to check quickly a link when my computer isn't around. If it needs more thought or it needs to be bookmarked, I send it to myself on Signal and open it on my computer.
And on my computer, I have Firefox autodelete all site data and history on close. But I have a shit ton of bookmarks organised into folders. Also, I just can't deal with having too many tabs open. The moment I start needing to scroll the tab bar, I look at what I can close.
I pretty much never have more than 3 or 4 open at one time and always close out when I’m done. Do people not know what bookmarks and history Are for?
There's a limit?
Sounds like a terrible web browser, if it can't handle my 500+ tabs I don't want that negativity to run on my machine lol
I'm coming back for them. Just like all the posts I save so I can read them later.
Currently at 666 (nice) tabs on my phone... I've gone through a few times closing some but apparently not enough lol
That's horrible, use bookmarks.
Auto tab closing after a month is so good. You have a searchable history after that, use it 🙂
Except that doesn't work when you have memory issues that mean you have to see the thing to remember it
Yeah because you are seeing 500+ tabs.
No, this is part of the impetus to keep them open, the history only lasts a month too
Are we gonna talk about the fact that’s it’s 500 private tabs and only 62 regular tabs
I default to private tabs so the tabs dissapear whenever i close firefox.. 500 private tabs means OP never closes its web browser?
I think iOS remembers private tabs even when you close and reopen safari. They do require your pin to view the private tabs 🤷
Is it safe to eat blood curd? We're gonna need another tab to find out
I hate that so much, there is almost never more than 5 tabs open on my browser. At the 6th one, typically once I finished my thing there, I close the browser and reopen a clean one. I don't even remember what I was doing on these 5 other ones anyway
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How's this even an alert, just close em all, start fresh.