AAARGH: definition

Monday, March 30th, 2009 01:54 pm
[personal profile] tamaranth
... when you're packing up your laptop to go and demo a database and you realise you have umpteen hundred tabs open in Firefox, Chrome and Flock, many of 'em NSFW ...

Date: Monday, March 30th, 2009 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com
When that happens to me in Firefox, I use the Ctrl+shift+D to "bookmark all tabs", and save them into a single folder, and when I want them back, the last entry in the folder is "Open all in tabs".

I have used this to build a "daily" and "daily2" set of tabs and when I start up firefox when I get to work, the first couple of minutes it's busy loading around ten tabs with work stuff, BBC news, gmail, LJ etc. and I can go make coffee, come back and find my firefox is all ready to go, with everything loaded.

Date: Monday, March 30th, 2009 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com
Good technique!

Date: Monday, March 30th, 2009 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
Good if you're using Firefox! Chrome doesn't have this function, and nor does Flock (tho' the latter can be conned into reopening every page by forcing a hard shutdown). And yes, there are good reasons for using Chrome and Flock as well ...

Date: Monday, March 30th, 2009 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/
Very argh. You need a laptop cleaner...

Date: Monday, March 30th, 2009 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
Nah, I need to be a little more organised -- or possibly less organised, so that instead of being ultra-efficient right up to departure time, I spend an hour browsing and closing those tabs ...

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