At the end of the day, users just want to remember the sites they have visited without actively bookmarking and categorizing them because it’s too tedious. So why not just have a database of visited sites, grouped by most visited or by day. Yes, there’s the history of visited sites, but I don’t know many users who use this, so this could be redesigned to be more dynamic, more prominent (keep x tabs open, sorted by most visited or most recent), more intuitive and accessible.
Simple Tab Groups (firefox) makes it easy to get them out of your way and organize into separate groups which you can switch to. As a side feature it has automatic saves that can resurrect your entire session from backups.
So it is sort of a bookmark without bookmarking. Either it’s project related (you do some research), or you want to read it later. Are there more categories?
Maybe find a metric to try to maximise the chance that you reopen an old tab ? Taking into account frequency to open this url, distribution in time, bookmarked, bookmarked and tagged... and put those in tab opened, tabs listed but not opened, or put in "history" .
As someone else said, Chrome does a smiley face. I just always assumed this was because of a UI limitation of space and the UI not working if it had 3 characters. I personally don't mind it. It's not like the tabs go away, if you go to the tab view, they are all still there. It doesn't limit you or anything.
Doesn't really bother me. Somehow I create tabs without realizing it and it just balloons to that point all the time. But on mobile I don't specifically care about keeping open tabs since I only use my phone browser for just looking up something, not so much keeping a running state of anything. Even if I did, I'm not sure I'd care how many tabs I have open.
I am the same way. I use the feature to automatically close tabs after a day as a form of garbage collection. But I almost never go back to a tab after putting the phone down, I'll just open a new one.
However people are definitely different. My partner uses tab groups and has quite the organization system.
I find it quite annoying and would rather it provide an accurate number. With no indicator, I’ve found I close less tabs. The icon also looks a lot like the Privacy icon on the tab browser.
You can't fit any number in such a little place.
And precision is not relevant facing such a big number
Finally, I think it hurts performance, so it may be a good design choice to annoy enough on order to incite people to close them :)
Just put the count on a hover tooltip - everyones happy, no size limitation, still serves as a deterrent (dubious as it may be to try incite suchlike on users who may have shelled out enough for a machine that can handle hundreds of tabs).
> You can't fit any number in such a little place.
I thought that but then I recently ran Kiwi and Ice Weasel to over 100 tabs and got a 3 digit count. (note: it might have been just one of those but pretty sure it was both).
Just because the tab exists doesn't mean it's active. I regularly have 100+ tabs in Firefox, manageable with TreeStyleTabs so usually just ~10 root tabs and the rest are child tabs within that, and Firefox sleeps the tabs anyone so doesn't really use much memory or CPU. Probably the same on mobile as well.
What are tabs for if not to have multiple websites open at the same time? Where goes the limit for "what tabs are for" for you? 10 is fine but 100 is not?
You shouldn't, but it happens. The UI makes it much easier to open a new tab than to close older tabs (unless you close all of them at once). You even inadvertently open new tabs when you click on links and they open on a new tab rather than on the current tab. Unless you consciously choose browse in a way that avoids the proliferation of new tabs, you'll get flooded by them, as that's what the design leads to. Exceptions are browsers that don't save tabs between sessions, or that automatically close tabs after a specific number.
This is exactly the problem on Firefox on Android (don't know about iOs).
You tap on the address bar and are presented with a set of icons of your most-visited sites. Hitting any icon will open the site in a new tab. But it's not obvious, and it's easy for your tabs to balloon.
To prevent that you actually have to start typing the site name in the address bar, even if the shortcut icon is right in front of you.
In Chrome if you tap on the address bar you also get a set of icons, but clicking on one opens the link in the same tab, as you'd expect.
New window? I suppose you didn't even read the headline. This is for Firefox mobile. It works this way in Android for me at least. As soon as you close tab 100 you get back the numbers.
I almost never close tabs. Maybe once or twice a year I close them all at once, but until then, the number just keeps growing and growing. Currently there are 2700 tabs open in my Firefox on Android. It still works relatively well. The only problem I notice is when I type in an address, it doesn't show the list of matching open tabs and history items. Inconvenient, but not critical. I should change my habits, yes.
I still marvel at people who accumulate lots of tabs. As someone who rarely has more than two tabs going at a time(1), I am fascinated by that workflow and what the benefit is.
(1)Although I often have multiple instances of the browser going if I'm doing research. I find it convenient to organize pages with multiple instances, so I can select which group I want to see by using the task bar.
I do this then forget, my “solution” is to use the “turn active tabs into bookmarks” feature on Brave Mobile so I can save everything with the promise to sort it later. That was easily 10,000 bookmarks ago.
The infinity symbol doesn't bother me; what I don't like is that the information about the number of open tabs isn't available anywhere else. As a result, I have to run a script on the browser console on my desktop.
Also, I'm not sure if it's just my old iPhone X, but I've noticed that when I have 100+ tabs open, the app crashes more frequently.
In all seriousness, yes, unfortunately, I know at least one person who daily-drives the Samsung browser. Why, I can't imagine. I mean, even Chrome is better than Samsung Internet, and that's saying a lot, since Chrome is essentially Google spyware IMO.
I found that it's only useful to browse sites that don't have dark mode (built-in conversion without any extensions) since they actually put some effort into making it work.
I tried it for a while. It's a pretty good browser which at the time had features others didn't. (I want to say extensions but I don't remember). In the end I am never comfortable using a closed source browser so I switched to Firefox.
It's been like that since forever. I guess that 3 digits don't fit nicely in that small space.
I take it as a reminder that I parked too many pages in my tabs but it doesn't seem to affect performances, so I don't care. I try to stay below 40, possibly 30 parked tabs now.
I closed and Pinboarded probably 300 tabs yesterday. How many it actually was I will never know because of that ∞. I don't like the infinity character.
