Tharthan wrote: ↑2024-10-31, 19:15
He points out that it is simpler, less straining on the browser, and more organised to just make an effort to more actively utilise bookmarks.
I think that the dissonance here comes from differences in the manner people browse the Internet.
The people who keep dozens and dozens of tabs open think, I suspect, that they will get to each and every one of those tabs in due time. Rather than
"make a bookmark" in this particular situation (think of the literal task of putting a bookmark in a book, and then putting the book back on the shelf,) they would rather have those other tabs right at hand for when they are finished with the active tab.
I can speak from my own experience. I use bookmarks to preserve sites which I find dear and I expect will stay dear years hence. Open tabs are for things which are likely to remain relevant in the nearer term (days or weeks), but not in the long term. If I am interested in researching a given subject as part of a hobby, I might open several tabs on the matter and evaluate them at my leisure, closing each when I expect I will need not refer again to it. (It might be weeks for me to realise I will not actually read something that I considered reading.) If I find something I would like to discuss later with a friend, I keep it open until it becomes convenient to mention to him. A tab might stay open to remind me of a general topic as long as that topic remains relevant to my meandering thoughts. It is easier for me to find relevant tabs using the Tab Groups feature than to comb through my history. I keep the history sidebar open, but chiefly for accessing sites I have recently closed or to seek ideas when bored. It is easier to leave a tab open than to try to recall its title.
My tab count changes like the moon: twelve to eighteen are usual for me, but I might open up to a few dozen. It can happen that I forget to close tabs after finding another topic, causing newer subjects to bury older ones like geological strata. If I open more than about thirty tabs, I am more motivated to purge them, that is, actively to delete those which have become irrelevant, but I never do so according to any schedule. While writing this, I have gone from fifteen to five tabs. I cannot say when I began to browse like this, but I know that, as a child, I would keep one or two windows open before tabbed browsing was introduced. Conversely, about 2019, I would formerly bookmark any page which I thought I might wish to revisit, leaving me in due time with over five thousand bookmarks, most unused after a year. This would seem to make nonsense of the purpose of bookmarking; it only works if you remember to delete them, and dozens of tabs are less egregious than thousands of bookmarks. Waves of purges and the newer, more scrupulous approach to bookmarking described above have left me with just thirty-nine still. I do not think my habits are bad or wrong at all. They developed organically, and are simply how I browse.
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