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It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.

I'm working on tab garbage collection too!

https://github.com/echelon/browser-focus

I need to add screenshots.

Basically puts an overlay on all timed out tabs, shows all timed out tabs so you can kill them all together, etc.

I want a better algorithm / heuristic that can semantically track what I'm doing.

I might eventually be brave enough to break out of tabs and let my windowing system handle everything.

It discourages and frustrates. So yes, it is useless in terms of modern browsing.

Get the "One Tab" extension. It closes all tabs, but saves a list, so it gets over the psychological hurdle of losing the open tabs.

Might be just me but I just close everything at the end of day to start a clean slate for next day (usually around 50). I also just use bookmarks for persistent autocomplete.

> i'm stuck at like 12,000 open tabs

Would you mind giving this a shot and sharing your feedback? https://github.com/TheCodeArtist/firefox-tabs-review

Helps wade through the backlog of tabs to "burndown" one by one or en-masse?

This is bizarre to me. I close Out my browser completely several times a day lol.

Do you actually come back to a tab 2,000 tabs later?

Lately I've tried using an extension to close any tabs I haven't opened for a few days. I haven't missed them, and if I actually want to come back to something, I make a todo now.

This feels like a hoarders mentality. You don't have to answer this but do you hoard in any other aspects of life? There's nothing more therapeutic than closing tabs. Worst case, everything is in history and can be opened again.

Cursed skeuomorphism

People get inspired by seeing a new color, smelling a new scent, or hearing a new song. Inspiration comes in all shapes and forms. Makes me kind of sad that you seemingly haven't been inspired by something random in life yet.

It doesn't do anything for shareholder value, but I love it.

It is absolutely! (But nobody better try putting this on my browser.)

Classic joke at university was to sprinkle cress seeds on the carpet of someone's room and water it with a fine mist from a plant sprayer. In the morning the inhabitant would wake up to a neat lawn that had appeared overnight by magic.

Cress is a word I haven't heard in decades. Got to get some cress!

found the shareholder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

"BonziBuddy was described as spyware[1] and adware,[2] and was discontinued in 2004 after Bonzi Software, Inc. faced lawsuits and fines regarding the software.[3]"

It's just a matter of time before something like a "Zoltar screensaver for Basecamp" becomes an IP siphon.

sheep.exe was not useless, I loved it. you take that back.

I'm one of those people.

I have serious ADHD and I often dive a rabbit hole for an idea for side project. Or research. Or combination of both. Most of my side projects you could categorize as spikes. There's no serious intent on delivering something of value for the world, just going from A to B and learning a thing or two on the run.

I'm like kerosene, I light up instantly, but the fire goes away very quickly. I can be researching a thing for 3 nights straight in my spare time to gather hooks and pieces of information... and then I get distracted and my focus goes somewhere else. And I'm left with 10 tabs that were suppose to kick start my idea.

To my own surprise I tend to go back to these ideas, but sometimes it takes me months, and sometimes, I keep these tabs on one of my devices, opened for months at a time. Sometimes I scrape them, adding links with notes to Obsidian.

Of course the amount of hoarded information vastly exceeds my throughput.

And while initially you fear that you may have lost something valuable, you also immediately feel like a great burden has been lifted...