an odd sort of bankruptcy

[dsrtao]

I have never been tempted to declare, as has recently become fashionable, "email bankruptcy". That is the situation when one declares that there is simply too much unhandled email to deal with, and all history will be erased. I have tools to deal with that.

No, I just declared browser tab bankruptcy. With over 300 open tabs in two windows, I found that I had no way to cope. I need better tools.

I'm starting over. I just killed Firefox, started it again, and am now building on a clean slate. First move: opening the six sites that I really do hit over and over and over again as "pinned app tabs". If you have a sufficiently new FF or Chrome, try right-clicking on a tab such as LJ. The Pin as App Tab choice collapses the tab to the site's favored icon and slides it over to the left.

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[seawasp]

He's MAD, I tell you! MAD!

I shut down my desktop (at work) every day, except on Thursdays when I leave it on for backup. My laptop, I close any application or tab I don't expect to be using in the next, say, half hour.

[dsrtao]

My job requires a middle-of-the-night Internet connection that is up and usable by the time I've finished blinking my eyes enough to read (if not understand) whatever alert has come in.

Similarly, if I rush into the office, I expect my machine to be up and running in the time it takes me to type my password and then take off my coat.