Hillbilly H
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LOL i got 73 tabs open.
[Poll] Are you bookmarks fan or tabs fan?
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Technically, yes. You just copy/paste your profile.
As for the poll, I use tabs and bookmarks - lots and lots of tabs.
This might work at home. My company does not allow cloud profile accounts on our work systems.
Oh, it'd be a horrible solution for a business. But, it's how I've kept the same open tabs, bookmarks, and settings across multiple installs - even installs with different package managers or stuff like that. My backup process doesn't always include much more than just my ~/ directory.
Primarily using Opera here as my "go-to" browser, I have around a dozen tabs open permanently across 5 labelled workspaces (one feature I love about Opera).
I find 'workspaces' easier to deal with than the other 'stacked' tab grouping options, since I'm very used to this in Linux anyway.
I have around 900-1000 bookmarks that I've been gathering over the last decade. I periodically go through and check for dead links on those that get even semi-regular usage. I also export an HTML 'backup' of my bookmarks once a month.
My bookmarks get 'pruned' around twice a year.
As @KGIII says, a profile copy WILL preserve open tabs. I keep copies of ALL my browser profiles, and sym-link them into their respective 'portable' directories.......in many cases, the same profile can be 'shared' between both 32- and 64-bit builds of the same browser version (primarily with the 'zilla-based browsers, since most of the Chromium 'clones' have long since gone 64-bit only).
Mike.
I find 'workspaces' easier to deal with than the other 'stacked' tab grouping options, since I'm very used to this in Linux anyway.
I have around 900-1000 bookmarks that I've been gathering over the last decade. I periodically go through and check for dead links on those that get even semi-regular usage. I also export an HTML 'backup' of my bookmarks once a month.
My bookmarks get 'pruned' around twice a year.
As @KGIII says, a profile copy WILL preserve open tabs. I keep copies of ALL my browser profiles, and sym-link them into their respective 'portable' directories.......in many cases, the same profile can be 'shared' between both 32- and 64-bit builds of the same browser version (primarily with the 'zilla-based browsers, since most of the Chromium 'clones' have long since gone 64-bit only).
Mike.
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@dos2unix :-
At a guess, your company is just being cautious.....and is basically implementing good, sensible & careful online security practices.
They're certainly not alone in this respect. Home users tend to take more risks than organizations, who in many cases have databases full of sensitive data they need to keep safe. This is why so many WANT to keep their private data 'local'.
Can't fault ANY organization for wanting to protect their livelihood, especially if IP is involved.
Mike.
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More bookmarks, fewer tabs.
I have, for instance, a bookmark for the linux.org forums login page. When I log in, I see a list of the different forums with those with unread threads in bold. I right click each bolded forum to open it in a new tab. When I move to the tab for a specific forum, there's the list of threads with those with unread messages in bold. On a good day, I might end up with a couple of dozen tabs open. When I move to the tab for a specific thread, I read the new messages then, if there's anything I might want to refer back to later, I bookmark it. Either way, I dismiss the tab and move on. When all the tabs back to the main forum list have been dismissed, I "mark forums read" and log out.
Similar with other sites, of course.
So I have probably three or four hundred bookmarks including various search engines, forums, churches, projects, pages on my local web server, stuff that I want to buy some day, etc, etc etc. But I don't think I've ever had more than thirty or so tabs open at once.
I back up my bookmarks to a .json file whenever I add a new one (in firefox, Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks | Import and Backup | Backup ) so that I can restore them after restoring ~/.mozilla to a clean state (which I do, for instance, before and after using facebook and such).
One of the reasons I consider a couple of dozen tabs to be "a lot" is that I spent a lot of years using systems with "limited" (by today's standards) amounts of RAM. While my current systems are reasonably well spec'd with RAM, I don't see any reason to waste it. And I occasionally still use a netbook with 1 GB, so I don't want to form bad habits (or at least not -that- bad habit! ). And, to top it all off, I recently had something, with the browser being the prime suspect, bog my system down to the point where I had to power cycle the machine. Whether or not "having too many tabs open" might cause or contribute to that, trying to remember what I was doing in some large number of tabs seems likely to be futile. (and no, neither the RAM usage nor the CPU usage was maxed out.)
I have, for instance, a bookmark for the linux.org forums login page. When I log in, I see a list of the different forums with those with unread threads in bold. I right click each bolded forum to open it in a new tab. When I move to the tab for a specific forum, there's the list of threads with those with unread messages in bold. On a good day, I might end up with a couple of dozen tabs open. When I move to the tab for a specific thread, I read the new messages then, if there's anything I might want to refer back to later, I bookmark it. Either way, I dismiss the tab and move on. When all the tabs back to the main forum list have been dismissed, I "mark forums read" and log out.
Similar with other sites, of course.
So I have probably three or four hundred bookmarks including various search engines, forums, churches, projects, pages on my local web server, stuff that I want to buy some day, etc, etc etc. But I don't think I've ever had more than thirty or so tabs open at once.
I back up my bookmarks to a .json file whenever I add a new one (in firefox, Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks | Import and Backup | Backup ) so that I can restore them after restoring ~/.mozilla to a clean state (which I do, for instance, before and after using facebook and such).
One of the reasons I consider a couple of dozen tabs to be "a lot" is that I spent a lot of years using systems with "limited" (by today's standards) amounts of RAM. While my current systems are reasonably well spec'd with RAM, I don't see any reason to waste it. And I occasionally still use a netbook with 1 GB, so I don't want to form bad habits (or at least not -that- bad habit!
). And, to top it all off, I recently had something, with the browser being the prime suspect, bog my system down to the point where I had to power cycle the machine. Whether or not "having too many tabs open" might cause or contribute to that, trying to remember what I was doing in some large number of tabs seems likely to be futile. (and no, neither the RAM usage nor the CPU usage was maxed out.)
