My previous office mate had Firefox store his tabs from session to session, and had a special tab manager, because he routinely kept between 200 and 1000 tabs open at a time. Some of them were more than a year old, and he still hadn’t gotten to them. He likes it that way!
Of course, he wasn’t spending solid days going through them, but I know of no clearer example of Tab-Foom.
I am your previous office mate :/. I don’t like it that way; I wish I could get the information I want to keep in my head into it, but somehow those tabs just keep sitting there—after you pass a certain amount, the “out of sight, out of mind” effect kicks in, and various other akrasiastic effects—and I only start afresh when I can’t recover a tab-set, which feels mildly catastrophic and mildly cathartic.
You had me quite confused until I looked through your other comments to assure myself you were being metaphorical.
Most tabs he gets through within a week. The ones that stick around longer are mostly references, articles he’s liked, sort of an alternate bookmark space. He actually prefers tabs to bookmarks most of the time, and has treated an unrecoverable tab set as a catastrophic event.
Maybe I’ve gaged his feelings wrong, but we’ve talked about it, and I don’t think he views it the same way you do.
If you don’t like it, what have you tried to do to change it? I’ve felt similar to the way you describe before, and solved it by forcing myself to shut down my computer at night (and not save tabs between sessions). If something is really important, I’ll get it over with before I shut my computer down, or I’ll bookmark it, but it stops plaguing me either way.
Did you read them all? TVTropes takes me a long time, because I generally read through the examples of the trope at the bottom of the page. 700 TVTropes pages would probably take me...a 40 hour week? Doing it in small chunks so as not to get bored...three months? I can’t easily conceive enjoying that much TVTropes.
When you put it that way, I could see how many people wouldn’t be interested in spending a good three months of eight-hour days inside a Tab-Foom.
My previous office mate had Firefox store his tabs from session to session, and had a special tab manager, because he routinely kept between 200 and 1000 tabs open at a time. Some of them were more than a year old, and he still hadn’t gotten to them. He likes it that way!
Of course, he wasn’t spending solid days going through them, but I know of no clearer example of Tab-Foom.
I am your previous office mate :/. I don’t like it that way; I wish I could get the information I want to keep in my head into it, but somehow those tabs just keep sitting there—after you pass a certain amount, the “out of sight, out of mind” effect kicks in, and various other akrasiastic effects—and I only start afresh when I can’t recover a tab-set, which feels mildly catastrophic and mildly cathartic.
You had me quite confused until I looked through your other comments to assure myself you were being metaphorical.
Most tabs he gets through within a week. The ones that stick around longer are mostly references, articles he’s liked, sort of an alternate bookmark space. He actually prefers tabs to bookmarks most of the time, and has treated an unrecoverable tab set as a catastrophic event.
Maybe I’ve gaged his feelings wrong, but we’ve talked about it, and I don’t think he views it the same way you do.
If you don’t like it, what have you tried to do to change it? I’ve felt similar to the way you describe before, and solved it by forcing myself to shut down my computer at night (and not save tabs between sessions). If something is really important, I’ll get it over with before I shut my computer down, or I’ll bookmark it, but it stops plaguing me either way.
I hit something like 700 tabs the first time I fell over TVTropes. A testament to the powers of Firefox 3.0 at the time.
Did you read them all? TVTropes takes me a long time, because I generally read through the examples of the trope at the bottom of the page. 700 TVTropes pages would probably take me...a 40 hour week? Doing it in small chunks so as not to get bored...three months? I can’t easily conceive enjoying that much TVTropes.
I was using it as a spare-time background idle reading thing. A couple of weeks to skim that many pages :-)