Anti-tab-proliferation proposal

[ilzolende]

• If it's a good regularly-updating website, subscribe to it on Dreamwidth, unless
  • it lacks RSS
  • it's the county newspaper or my dad's blog or something.
• If it's a good image, save the image file with a meaningful filename.
• If it's a good text blog post, save the raw HTML or the text or something.
• If it's not good, why am I holding onto this tab? I should probably close it.

This is not yet a complete ruleset.

Comments

[brin_bellway]

>>if you have tutorials that you know are helpful to save me the time googling help when I get around to it, or at least to make me feel obligated to read them, that would be helpful!<<

In my previous comment I mentioned my guide to using wget on Dreamwidth, much of which (the non-cookie parts) applies in this case as well. Also, here is the official wget manual.

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>>tried switching to Firefox because everyone said it was memory-lite (and I kinda wanted to be less google-ecosystem-bound)<<

Same. (same action, during same time period, for same reasons)

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>>not only is it not [memory-lite]<<

In my own experience, the secret to making Firefox memory-lite is to never, *ever* leave a Tumblr dashboard tab open for extended periods of time. (Webpage-view Tumblr blogs seem to be generally fine.) It looks like the memory-leak problems I was having with Firefox were all the blue hellsite's fault, which...well, it certainly seems in-character.

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>>it has fewer and less effective native memory-management tools<<

Yeah, the lack of ability to crash tabs at will is unfortunate, all the more so for someone with that many of them. Apparently there are extensions for that, though I haven't tried them myself.

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>>Also Edge on the side as a container for Facebook; this should be fixed soon by an extension that Tulip recommended for the purpose<<

I don't do Facebook per se, but I do use account containers on occasion and they are definitely handy.