Closing Every Tab After 10 seconds
I'm using Tab Wrangler and about:config to aggressively auto-close tabs after 10 seconds and open all links in the same tab.
What I tried but didn't stick with:
- Arc's tidy tabs
- Firefox AI grouping
- Custom Ollama Firefox Tab grouping
Arc's tidy tabs are still the best by far, but I prefer Firefox for its tab containers and temporary tabs. Arc is also not as strong on privacy and requires an account.
Firefox's AI grouping is not good. It's too clunky and containers aren't as fluid as in Arc.
I copied Arc's tidy tabs by using ministral-3:3b with ollama to read my tab titles and group them. This worked quite well except Firefox's tab group UI is not the greatest and it felt clunky. It also uses multiple GBs of memory at all times.
Then I remembered that I had used tab wrangler to automatically close tabs after they were idle for 10 seconds. Extreme, but highly effective, and all the tabs are saved in an accessible pinned extension.
I also noticed that tabs grew out of nowhere when they opened in new windows, so I set two flags in Firefox to aggressively open in same tab, which I think will work really well. If I want to open in a new tab, I just hold command.
browser.link.open_newwindow
= 1
browswer.link.open_newwindow.restriction
= 0
This works well because tabs are now ephemeral, allowing me to poke around, but if I don't remember what I was doing, it was probably fine if it disappeared. Digital interactions can feel great but also very draining. Because digital changes have no physical weight but a very real mental one, maybe lightening the load will help? At least keeping websites in a single tab is good for avoiding task-switching. I also selected to always keep tabs that are playing audio or are in a group, so I can drag any tab into a group to save something I want to keep.
What are your tab strategies?
Update:
This is horrible. Don't try to do this.