I'm certainly guilty of this, though I also use bookmarks. For me, an unloaded tab is much more "in your face" than a bookmark hidden away in a menu. I tend to use my list of tabs (about 30) as a todo list and bookmarks as "this might be useful again in the future".

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest problem with bookmarks is finding them again. Whether you try to organize them into 1000 folders (IMO a lost cause) or use the Gmail approach of just search everything (also a lost cause, because not enough metadata is associated with the bookmark), even if you know you bookmarked something in the past, unless you remember the title of the page you probably aren't going to find it again.

I'd really like to see a better system for keeping track of pages. Personally, I set Firefox to never, ever, forget my browser history, so I can search it going back years. That's helped me dig up a lot of old stuff that I couldn't quite remember where I found something.

Is Trump still going forward with Musk's recommendation to deorbit the ISS in 2027?

SpaceX was awarded a $843 million contract to deorbit the ISS back in 2024 (Biden was president) in the year 2030.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Was there an update to this plan that I didn't hear about?

Great, so now there will be useless AI generated video slop next to the useless photoshopped product images - and I'm certain Amazon will heavily promote these trash AI videos to try and justify the expense. 90% of product videos on Amazon are already completely useless for learning anything about a product and this will just bring that up to 99%. Guess it's time to make a uBlock filter to hide all videos on Amazon.

I'm actually surprised they didn't go for AI-gen product photos first. Think of the thousands of man-hours that could be saved by having a computer create all those shitty counterfeit product photos.

Disney has pleasantly surprised me with how they're dealing with Star Wars. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.

LK

Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.

LK

The problem is you cannot donate to Firefox directly - only to the Mozilla Foundation. If they let people vote with their (donation) dollars, it would be much more clear to them where people want them to expend their efforts.

As an optional (or even promoted) extension, Pocket was a great idea. Integrating it into the browser was pretty dumb. Fakespot as a website is pretty cool and I used it a number of times over the years. Mozilla buying it was incredibly stupid.

If I knew my donation had been wasted on either of these, I'd be pissed enough to never donate again.

Coitus interruptus

HBO might not mean anything to Gen Z and later but for us Gen X and earlier, there was still a level of prestige associated with the brand.

It was stupid to throw that away.

LK

I called it out on another branch of this discussion but I'm talking about things like, someone posts a question that goes something like this:
"Am I The Asshole for declining a second date with the chick I met on Tinder after she told me she was trans?"

Topics like this are ban honeypots because even getting too close to a verboten position will get you banned by Reddit.

I have seen it. I have been threatened with a ban for expressing the opinion that 8 year old children shouldn't be given sex reassignment surgery.

Reddit is toxic.

LK

I chose that specific example precisely because it's banned on all of reddit. If you say that there is any difference between XX CIS women and XY Trans women, you'll be banned from Reddit.

Ridiculous, right?

LK

Or general relationship subreddits.

Someone will ask "Am I transphobic for not going on a second date after this chick I met on Tinder told me she was trans?"

It'll be a ban honeypot.

LK

Good faith disagreements can get you banned from a lot of them.

Someone who is prone to falling in line with group think will likely never encounter it but it's real.

LK

It's a stupid echo chamber full of stupid people who are chasing stupid agendas.

It's a place where they will permanently ban you for suggesting that there is any difference of any kind between XX CIS women and XY Trans women.

It's a place where you'll be mod bombed into oblivion for saying that you wouldn't want to date a current or former sex worker.

It's a place where honest discourse goes to die.

Seriously, fuck Reddit.

LK

Agreed that 4000 is a bonkers number and definitely a "you" problem and not an issue with the browser.

However I do tend to find myself with ~50 tabs open (thank god for vertical tabs) because I find it much easier to use open tabs instead of bookmarks as a reminder or to-do list since the tabs are a constant visible reminder. This is especially true for work where I have multiple projects/topics in-flight. Most of them are unloaded so they don't really use any resources.

I wish there was something between bookmarks and tabs to fill this use case. I've tried some addons like Reading List to handle it, but it didn't really work for me. A tab group might work since it's also easily seen (acting as a reminder) and accessible (easily acted on).

I admit this probably says more about my organization and discipline, but I've used tabs this way for over a decade.

It's worth running the numbers.

In 50,000 years, there could be a whole new crop of coal to repeat this whole cycle all over again.

LK