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Patrick Dubroy
@dubroy.com

This is exactly one of the findings of the study* on tabbed browsing I did ~15 yrs ago — tab usage is bimodal. Funny to see that it (anecdotally at least) still holds up! ∗ "A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users" from CHI 2010: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Andy Wingo@wingolog.org

new* thoughts on what web browsers can be by @robin.berjon.com * new to me, the post is 2023 but still fresh berjon.com/bigger-brows...

berjon.comYou're Gonna Need A Bigger BrowserBrowsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents...

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v buckenham
@v21.bsky.social

I am very much in that second category, and I am a big fan of Arc for their "self-closing tabs" concept. Like, I have workspaces, I have some pinned stuff... but mostly I want to have like up to 10 tabs open at any one time, and to not have to think about them once I stop using them

Red Blob Games
@redblobgames.com

I'm in between. I'll normally have a few tabs open but I'll sometimes have 20-50 and then I go through them, get what I wanted from them, and close them. It's kind of like the Creative Process diagram from lostgarden.com/2010/08/17/v...

lostgarden.comVisualizing the Creative ProcessAs I coach new developers, I’ve taken to scribbling out the same useful diagram for visualizing the creative process again and again on coffee-ringed napkins.  In order to limit my future abu…
lonjil
@lonjil.net

Yesterday my computer was a bit sluggish, so I closed 4000 tabs. Of course, I exported all my tabs as easily machine readable JSON first (much better than bookmarks, though I have about 100k of those too).