On bookmarks, reading lists, browser tabs, etc. Also OneTab.
Apr. 24th, 2026 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arlieMy first post this morning was not the one I expected to write. Here's what was in my mental queue:
I, and many other people, have a chronic problem with browser tabs. Something comes up; I mean to check into it, and open a browser tab as a reminder. Perhaps it's a long article I don't have time to read in depth. Perhaps it's a product I intend to evaluate for possible use. Perhaps it's a set of tabs opened as part of a minor project that got interrupted. Whatever the cause, I tend to ind up with enough browser windows and tabs open to closely approach the limit of what my hardware and software can support, and routinely instruct my browsers to reopen all tabs and windows when restarted.
Unfortunately, the number of tabs a given system can support continuously decreases. The web sites include more and more self-refreshes and other causes of load on cpu, memory, and network. The browsers and desktop managers often implement new features that make this worse, though sometimes they do go the other way. And everything gets more bloated on each update.
This has been an issue since well before I retired, and I still don't have a good solution. Every alternate method of tracking work in progress has been more heavyweight, less reliable, or otherwise a problem.
My first attempt involved using Safari's Reading List feature. I stopped this when I discovered that while Safari could export bookmarks, it couldn't (wouldn't) export its Reading List. I still have a plist from a Safari instance on a now deceased computer. Sadly, it includes a lot more than the Reading List, making retrieving the data painful. (I never did that work, and it's now long past when the contents would be relevant.)
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I, and many other people, have a chronic problem with browser tabs. Something comes up; I mean to check into it, and open a browser tab as a reminder. Perhaps it's a long article I don't have time to read in depth. Perhaps it's a product I intend to evaluate for possible use. Perhaps it's a set of tabs opened as part of a minor project that got interrupted. Whatever the cause, I tend to ind up with enough browser windows and tabs open to closely approach the limit of what my hardware and software can support, and routinely instruct my browsers to reopen all tabs and windows when restarted.
Unfortunately, the number of tabs a given system can support continuously decreases. The web sites include more and more self-refreshes and other causes of load on cpu, memory, and network. The browsers and desktop managers often implement new features that make this worse, though sometimes they do go the other way. And everything gets more bloated on each update.
This has been an issue since well before I retired, and I still don't have a good solution. Every alternate method of tracking work in progress has been more heavyweight, less reliable, or otherwise a problem.
My first attempt involved using Safari's Reading List feature. I stopped this when I discovered that while Safari could export bookmarks, it couldn't (wouldn't) export its Reading List. I still have a plist from a Safari instance on a now deceased computer. Sadly, it includes a lot more than the Reading List, making retrieving the data painful. (I never did that work, and it's now long past when the contents would be relevant.)
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