I learned of tab sleeping in another reply. Having all of that juggling in RAM would be the downside, but apparently that feature takes care of that. I haven’t looked into it yet or learned about it, still just going off someone mentioning it.

Although for me if it’s important enough to need to keep around, I would bookmark it anyway because I never trust reopening to bring everything back.

I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn’t necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.

I hadn’t heard of “tab sleeping” either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.

And I don’t use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that’s not necessarily everybody.

The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I’ve ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn’t keep them all open.

And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I’m not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.

I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I’ve needed multiple windows in my life (and I’m old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.

Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.

So it’s just like hoarder mentality then.

Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have “dozens” and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?

You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?

Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it’s something I’m working on, it’s filled in a to do list of some sort.

If I’m considering a purchase, it’s either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.

Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.

Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I’m just saying I can’t personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.

I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote “normal” pov, I can’t understand it.

I literally cannot comprehend this. What are you keeping in these things?

If any of you are playing games, and I know you are, there’s no way those games aren’t slideshows.

Sooo literally how?

If I leave the computer for longer than taking a piss, the browser is closed. Zero tabs.

I get actually uncomfortable with more than 5 or so open.

At least at home. Work computers I can understand because you gotta do whatever you’re doing, but even then double digit amounts seems actually crazy.

If you’re just opening them thinking “I’m gonna read this article” and just leave it, then you gotta get some better meds.