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[–] Blue_Morpho 7 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Is this a Gen Z / Gen Alpha thing? My kids never close their tabs. It drives me crazy.

[–] Inucune 12 points 20 hours ago

They've never had a computer crash from having more than 5 programs open.

[–] yogurtwrong 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Gen Z here. I had a pretty shit laptop until I got a Acer Nitro 5 four years ago. I used to have 2 GBs of memory and a Intel Centrino Duo CPU. It was my dad's old laptop and I have installed Lubuntu 14.04 on it when I was 11 and it was how I got interest in computers

I currently have 24 GBs of memory in my pc but i still can't open more than 5-6 tabs without freaking out. Number goes down if I have a office program running. There's just a buzzer in my brain that goes off when my computer reaches 4-5 gb of mem usage. But Firefox on my phone has 153 open tabs rn for some reason

[–] Blue_Morpho 1 points 11 hours ago

Firefox on my phone has 153 open tabs rn for some reason

I had like 8 tabs open in Firefox on my phone and it suggested turning on an automatic close tabs feature.

[–] devfuuu 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Definitely not. People from older gens have been screaming a about it since forever.

The other day I managed to close one of the windows that was full of tabs. Now I need to review and close the hundreds and hundreds on the other still open 2 windows. Soon™. They have been living like that for more than a year.

[–] then_three_more 3 points 17 hours ago

I'm 38, I don't think I've ever closed a tab.

[–] Wizard_Pope 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

No clue I am early genZ so maybe not what you had in mind but I always close my tabs. At least on PC we all know how bad mobile Browsers are about this.