army1987 comments on Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grognor 16 November 2011 02:20:59PM 13 points [-]

I would have suggested, and still do suggest if another poll will happen, the question,

How many tabs do you have open in your browser right now?

to see if that correlates with e.g. procrastination. Large any-given-moment tab count, I hypothesize, correlates negatively with focus, and maybe slightly negatively with conscientiousness.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 November 2011 05:51:12PM 1 point [-]

I have ten tabs open right now.

<making excuses>This is probably because of my habit to opening almost all links in a new tab (because it's easier to get back to where I came from) and can't be bothered to close a tab unless I really have too many tabs open.</making excuses>

Comment author: lavalamp 16 November 2011 06:24:49PM 3 points [-]

I have ten tabs open right now... in my second browser window. And another 42 in the first one...

Comment author: nitePhyyre 17 November 2011 02:54:14PM 1 point [-]

112 in 5 windows.

Comment author: ata 22 November 2011 04:23:18AM 2 points [-]

I regularly let tabs proliferate until I have a dozen windows open and hundreds of tabs between them and the browser gets so slow that I have to restart it or it just crashes. When this happens, I usually don't feel like waiting for hundreds of tabs to reload, so I move the saved browser session aside, telling myself I'm just making a "temporary" new session, and then the same thing happens and I never revisit any of my past sessions. I have browser session files dating back to… 2007? That can't be right, this has been going on for way longer than that… maybe I have the older ones on a backup somewhere.

Anyway, I think I have a problem.

Comment author: dbaupp 18 November 2011 02:15:20AM 0 points [-]

o_O

Comment author: [deleted] 17 November 2011 04:50:15PM 0 points [-]

16 in one window.

Comment author: Dorikka 17 November 2011 02:17:43AM *  0 points [-]

Jawdrop. 42? Wow.

As for myself, I have 8.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 17 November 2011 05:49:02AM 0 points [-]

14 in two different windows.

Comment author: Bongo 22 November 2011 01:59:37AM 0 points [-]

73 tabs, 4 windows.