{"id":192,"date":"2007-09-19T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/192"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:33:41","slug":"getting-tabs-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"Getting Tabs Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know you’re trying to do too many things at once when…<\/p>\n

\"ZOMG<\/a><\/p>\n

Managing browser tabs needs its own methodology, like GTD<\/a>: Every week, go through your open tabs and close as many as you can<\/em>. I don’t actually need to read that article. Not interested in this, any more. etc.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Clearly, I fail. >.< Restoring this session of 20 tabs brings Firefox up to 80MB, right away. Most of my current tabs are about different programming things: various references, tutorials, articles… as well as a tab to feedburner<\/a> – for some reason, I’m addicted to looking at my blog’s meagre statistics. It’s fun! <\/p>\n

Side Note: <\/strong> One thing that’s pretty cool, that can help minimize the tabs open for Python reference, is the Python sidebar<\/a>. If there was only a pyGTK<\/a> section in the sidebar….<\/p>\n

When I’ve had tabs sitting open with no activity… I copy the link into a “would-be-nice” Tomboy<\/a> note and close the tab. This helps a little… but I still have generally too many tabs open to help with the task at hand – and I prefer tabs to new windows (opening new windows is painfully slow on my setup, not sure why). If you have a similar problem of many tabs open at one time, I highly recommend<\/strong> the Tab Groups<\/a> Firefox extension. Take a look:<\/p>\n

\"Tab<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow. The extension is still super early (I think it’s already caused FF to crash once), it takes a little while to sort the tabs when restoring a session, and you can’t move the Tab Groups around… but I’m definitely going to continue using it. It allows for much easier<\/em> navigation of your current session, rather than scroll-click-is-this-what-i’m-looking-for-if-not-repeat. And for some reason, it even feels snappier! \ud83d\ude2e So this helps you Get Tabs Organized, which helps GTC, which helps GTD. Yay. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know you’re trying to do too many things at once when… Managing browser tabs needs its own methodology, like GTD: Every week, go through your open tabs and close as many as you can. I don’t actually need to read that article. Not interested in this, any more. etc. Clearly, I fail. >.< Restoring… Continue reading Getting Tabs Closed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,11],"tags":[19,45,46,29],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general","category-projects","tag-firefox","tag-gtd","tag-python","tag-screenshots","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-36","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}