with the dozen+ crowd. two ilx's, webmail, a few youtubes, grantland and some image searches. 15 total
― shook, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yahoo mail, Facebook, ILX.
― Zora DB, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
ILX and webmail are the two I use most. The holder for the third place alters with time, but the most likely options are Wikipedia, basso.fi (a local rap music site/message board), hs.fi (a local newspaper), Comics Should Be Good, discogs.com, and Facebook.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
Btw, am I the only one for whom Wikipedia, discogs.com and other sites like that have totally replaced search engines when looking for info on something? These days I google something only when I can't find anything about it on those sites.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
Wikipedia is probably the first place I look when I want to find out something factual; didn't mention it above because it's not a site I tend to keep open/refresh constantly.
― sean doily, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
gmail, twitter, ilx, [then assorted tabs incl tumblr, bbc news/guardian, hairpin maybe, bunch of half-read articles, webmail sometimes]
if i am doing research-related browsing (e.g. jstor) i try and keep it to a separate window, sometimes even a different browser entirely? but inevitably there is mutual creep.
― paid, famous and sad (c sharp major), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
gmail flickr soundcloud fb twitter
― april wowak, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
I have a bookmarklet set up for Wikipedia.
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
i almost always have 7-8 tabs open, but yeah, i was just wondering about the top 3. for no particular reason.
I use Chrome's bookmarks bar for that purpose.
yeah, same here, and actually my bookmarks are pretty organized. i have everything organized into folders on the bookmark bar, so i have music, politics, envirofascism, animation, utilities, etc. and of course, MISC.
― Z S, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Top three are generally Gmail, ILX and Facebook. :/
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh god, the dreaded MISC folder xp
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
ilx/twitter/facebook
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
twitter has p much killed bookmarks for me, i have like ten in my bookmarks bar but i dont use them that much
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like a jerk because i can't seem to get into twitter that much. i can't imagine it replacing my bookmarks!
also, if this thread wsa "your four tabs" i'd add Google Reader as my 4th.
― Z S, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
1. iGoogle2. ILX3. either Facebook (more likely at home) or NYT (more likely at work)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
its like my internet, i feel good when i say my internet
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
ilx, gmail, google reader
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i really want everything bookmarked or queued to a reader, it would deplete the portfolio of things i can cycle through listlessly when i'm bored. like if you only went to the fridge when you were actually going to eat a thing, instead of just to have a general check-in.
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
> Btw, am I the only one for whom Wikipedia, discogs.com and other sites like that have totally replaced search engines when looking for info on something? These days I google something only when I can't find anything about it on those sites.
> ― Tuomas, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:04 AM
Me too, and beyond that, I use Google as a cross-application spell checker (just type the first few letters and let it finish the word for me), and also to determine which of two spellings is the more common one by number of hits, or whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing.
― Everything else is secondary, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
i use google to search wikipedia etc tho
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
ilx, google reader, subsonic/some radio station site if i'm listening to music at work
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I will type into Google "new york knicks wiki" or whatever.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Which is often unnecessary, b/c Wikipedia is likely to be among the first few search results, anyway.
same
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
ilx, gmail, nyt
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
gmail, wikipedia, ....yeah I guess ilx actually.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
also to determine which of two spellings is the more common one by number of hits, or whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing
Oh yeah, I do this too.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 22 December 2011 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol only 3 tabs
― OH NOES, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing
Yup.
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I do this a lot. sometimes I'll compare the hit counts for two similar phrases to decide which one is correct. I have way too much faith in the masses sometimes.
altho sometimes I'll do the opposite & use google to figure out whether the phrase I just typed (or the bad pun that just popped into my head) is obvious prefabricated twaddle that 10,000 people have already thought of before or whether it is a strikingly original expression that could only have come from my unconventional mind (translation: it's such an awful pun that no one else has dared to put it in print, even on the internet).
― unregistered, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
"pre-fabricated twaddle"2 results (0.12 seconds)
:(
― unregistered, Thursday, 22 December 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
GMail, ILX, Facebook
― kamb, Thursday, 22 December 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
whether the phrase I just typed (or the bad pun that just popped into my head) is obvious prefabricated twaddle that 10,000 people have already thought of before or whether it is a strikingly original expression that could only have come from my unconventional mind (translation: it's such an awful pun that no one else has dared to put it in print, even on the internet).
Bahaha I do exactly this! Like "um hold on wait maybe 2,000 people before me have found it funny to claim Angelique Kidjo is the older sister of Ugly Kid Joe?"
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
ilx; at least one youtube tab, usually a wikipedia tab or two, google news; if it's friday then a couple tabs of craigslist yard sales
I only really look at email on my phone
― the lubbock babes, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
ILX, a backpacking forum where I am a moderator, third tab rotates a lot
― Aimless, Friday, 23 December 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i43.tinypic.com/6e3uqu.jpg
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 23 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
firefox 'pin as app tab' has totally changed bookmarking for me
― zappi, Friday, 23 December 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Gmail, memory alpha, dailymile
― Jeff, Saturday, 24 December 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol memory alpha <3 u Jeff.
― Ryan LZA (Leee), Monday, 26 December 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201103/8863c17e42764dd8ed529bc214eae0a2.jpg
― ~*~ (є(٥_ ٥)э), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, i guess most people who use chrome already know this, but you can "pin" your favorite tabs so that they're always open, but take up less space. here's my (main) three tabs, pinned:
http://i41.tinypic.com/zjf194.png
read about it here
― Z S, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
here ARE, sigh
sigh
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
next week: i tell everyone about Save vs Save As
― Z S, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
hey "alt+f-s-a" is a badass keyboard shortcut imo
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
F12 for the lazy/Office users.
― Ryan LZA (Leee), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
Three? Oh man, I wish :(
I have 53 tabs open right now. Some have been open for months.
― Telephone Thing, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
o shit are u my mom?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
well this is awkward
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
gmail, ilx, twitter
fourth tab usually google or a blog or something else i'm reading. kind of alarmed by how few people are including email in their 3, unless maybe they have it installed as something they don't read on their browser or something?
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
Bensons, regal kingsize,
Inability to name another cigarette brand ruins geordie "tabs" joke..
― Too Many Headphones (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
email is passe!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link