• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      I… what? It’s the most used Browser in the world. Also you’re apparently in the future.

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          “I don’t get it why am I hearing about the single most popular and most used browser on the planet in this day and age I mean it makes no sense”

          Right.

          For the record, I do use Firefox. I just think this whiny namby pamby elitism over a meme referencing the single most used browser is just… weird.

          • jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 days ago

            Its a weird corner of the internet where people are very opinionated, that just goes with the territory :)

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            It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s a figure of speech that expresses frustration in hearing about corporate software in circles I would expect to collectively know better.

            Come to think of it, this is in fact a capture from twitter or bluesky (I guess?), so it could be anyone and my expectations were a bit fantastic

      • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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        Just… Just don’t use Chrome. Just install Firefox already. Better yet, Libre Wolf as it comes with all important privacy settings and add-ons.

    • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      Yea, I think this depends on when you grew up learning your browsing habits. Back in my day lol when tabs came around, the computers could only handle a small handful before bringing the computer to its knees. Now the browsers don’t actively load the other tabs but I still can’t stand to have more than maybe 10 tabs when I’m researching something before I get an eye twitch.

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        5 days ago

        Shit, I never thought about it that way, but you may be onto something here. Not only tabs were heavy, they weren’t isolated into processes in most early implementations (IIRC that was the big Chrome selling point early on) and could crash your whole browser, so it made me extremely nervous opening too many tabs as I could lose it all with one error.

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          5 days ago

          You’re remembering correctly. Back when chrome was the lightweight browser with the cutting edge features. So much enshitification since then :(

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          You also couldn’t “restore session” if (when) the browser crashed because you had too many tabs open.

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          I can’t do it. The instinct is the computer can’t handle it. The moment I think I’m done I close the tab. If I need it again later, I can visit again.

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      It’s not even that. Like how do you have more than 10 tabs? I mean physically how do you interact with them, the button get too small.

      Anyway I think it’s much more sensible to have a 100 website saved in my bookmarks

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        Yeah, I think people who do this don’t realize just how simple bookmarks are… Like it’s pretty much exactly the thing they want.

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          Can only speak for myself, but bookmarks are not at all the thing I want.

          There’s more cognitive effort needed when creating a bookmark (not to mention several clicks and key presses) - I need to classify, organize, assign a folder, think about relevant tags.

          More importantly: while I expect to need the tab again in the near future, it is likely to be completely useless in a few days. Creating a bookmark for that is going to be wasteful clutter that I need to spend more mental energy cleaning up.
          The parent comment expressed incredulity at being able to manage that many tabs. I’m not sure how converting them to bookmarks instead helps. It just seems like I’ll need more clicks to get to my site.

          Also, I care about the state saved in my open tabs and don’t want to reload the page every time I visit it. Many websites are built in such a way that loading the URL again doesn’t even restore the same state, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.

          Bookmarks are useful, and I do use them, but they are not a workable replacement for tabs, at least to me.

      • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        At some point the buttons don’t get smaller and you can scroll them if they exceed the width of your screen. At least some browsers also give you tab groups so it stays a bit more organized.

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    624 checking in here. Firefox is starting to crumble under the weight. I blame YouTube