Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
www.theverge.com Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
Microsoft Edge is misbehaving.
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I would genuinely like to see Edge open all 848 tabs I have hoarded over 61 Chrome windows. I wonder if it could do it faster than Chrome manages. After rebooting, Chrome reopens, with all my tabs intact, in about 5 minutes. Provided a sanitary shutdown, that is. It takes more like 15 minutes for it to become responsive again the rare crash.
Clearly I have lost control of my life.
And yes, before you get on my case, I am working on switching back to Firefox after using Chrome for the last decade. It just takes a long time to pare down all these tabs.
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Is there a benefit you see for having open tabs instead of bookmarks ready to open when needed?
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I don't understand the tab hoarder mentality. I can't stand having too many tabs open it makes everyone disorganized and less useful.
My workflow is to open random links and searches in private tabs and then when I'm done with the search I just close the window and they're all gone. I also split subsequt searches up into multiple private windows with a few tabs each so once I find what I need on one search I can close those and have the ones I'm still using ready. If there's something I need to reference later I can move it over to the regular browser window or bookmark it.
Makes it easier to manage and doesn't get out of hand that way.
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You're thinking about this too productively. I have forty tabs open because I'll get to it later and every time I see my fifty tabs it's a reminder to get stuff done. Then I close a few tabs, look at the other seventy and feel a sense of accomplishment!
It's not because I have a semi-crippling executive function disorder that I pretend is just a curiosity about the world and a love for learning.
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Yes! Bookmarks are for things I'll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don't want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can't foresee needing in the long term.
Tabs are for things I'm working on right now and don't need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it's worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.
Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don't get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.
There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.
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Thank you!
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I wonder if it could do it faster than Chrome manages.
It would probably be the same time, Edge is just Microsoft Chrome after all.
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