Tabs_irl (Art by LazyLynxBoy)

There's a block of Lemmy posts, because it's not like I can expand the nested comments from the front page. I'll close most of them when I'm done reading. The ones that remain are e.g. videos I mean to watch later, or music to look up.

There's a block of technical questions, mostly MDN and DuckDuckGo icons. They wax and wane. Also some wacky may-never-happen stuff about raymarching tutorials and novel programming languages. They honestly just calcify.

There's a block of niche wiki bullshit because I do hobby coding for archaic platforms. Still haven't got a DOS emulator work on my Itchio page.

There's a block of other people's Itchio games I've been meaning to play, and downloads for tiny retro handhelds, and obsessive control-freak alternate operating systems for tiny retro handhelds.

There's a block of archives I'm plowing through - webcomics, blogs, old-school let's-plays, demoscene prods, completely legitimate foreign comic repositories.

And then there's the other window.

I have all this shit open because I'm not done with it yet. And they only impose upon my scroll-wheel finger and my soul. Tabs don't load until focused on, and none of them will ever suck up as much RAM as that one Youtube video you left open for later. At the first hint of lag, every couple days, I just close Firefox and restart it a minute later.

'Why not use bookmarks?' Because they're nested in menus like it's 1993, and once I'm done with them, they're still there. Tabs are right here, at a glance, all the time, and go away with one middle-click. Or a bunch of ctrl+w spam, if I just resolved some aggravating Javascript bullshit.

I am still using bookmarks. I am still downloading things, to have them for later. I use all these tools y'all think would substitute what I do with a web browser. I used to use Pocket since before it was Pocket but they fucking ruined it and anyway it only let me do even more.

"I might need it later".

Bookmarks are heresy.

I see some coworkers having hundreds of tabs open

And then they come to you complaining about how slow their computer is. I cannot magically make the 11 year old workstation that they insist on abusing with 200+ chrome tabs magically go as fast as their neighbor's who is using it as a glorified email machine.