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The browser hydra: close one, two more appear, none of them load fast.
means The clickable strips at the top of a browser window (or a notebook, file, or tab-key indent) that let you switch between separate pages or sections.
from From "tab," a short tag or projecting flap, a word of obscure origin that surfaced in English around the 17th–18th centuries — possibly a clipped, dialectal cousin of "tag" and "tap." It long meant a small protruding strip (the tab on a folder, the tab key that jumps a fixed distance), and digital interfaces borrowed that filing-cabinet image directly: each page gets its own little labeled flap to grab.
- original meaning
- From tabulate; flat projections that stick out for sorting
- tab vs space
- Decades-long programmer holy war, no truce in sight
- browser hoarding
- Hundreds open feels productive; it is denial
- keyboard sin
- Ctrl+Shift+T resurrects what you swore to kill
browser tabs — chrome, firefox, safari - most people have 20+ open simultaneously
guitar tabs — ultimate guitar database has 500,000+ user-submitted notation files
oral-b sonicare tabs — toothpaste tablets that dissolve in water, launched 2022