Re: Quick: How many tabs do you have open on your browser right now?

[Anonymous]

24 right now. That’s 2 1/2 rows at my current resolution.

I usually don’t notice until they start scrolling past three rows and I can’t see them anymore or someone finally pulls me away. If I’m having a particularly lucid day and actually notice things are getting out of control I use Instaright (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13317/) (formerly called InstaPaper) to save the page for offline reading on my iPhone. Of course, I rarely ever remember to read it on Instaright later and that’s the trick. When I do remember usually its hours or days later. More often than not after reading it I wander what the hell I thought was so great or important two nights ago when I couldn’t let it go.

Another great too I use sometimes is Leechblock (http://lifehacker.com/374812/save-yourself-from-time-sinks-online-with-leechblock). Leechblock is a Firefox add-on that blocks web pages or the internet entirely based on virtually any criteria you can think of. Examples: Block everything between 8 am and 5 pm, Mon-Fri only, except Gmail; block a particular list of sites for a specified amount of time if any one of those sites is open more than a specified number of minutes; shut down Firefox at a particular time of night and pop a message on the screen to GO TO BED! Leechblock can also track your time online, on specific sites, and/or specific types of sites to show you graphs of the time you are wasting. Best of all it has features to make it difficult to disable, override, or bypass it when you just can’t resist.

For outofshell: There is a Firefox add-on called BarTab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/) that automatically unloads all background tabs if they have not been accesses recently. The tabs are still there with there icons and titles they just don’t load the page until you click the tab. This helps prevent Firefox from getting bogged down from holding so many open tabs in memory at once.

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