I've found the "tab method" of tracking where I am fraught with danger - because systems hang and browsers explode. :-) Do you have a mechanism for preserving your existing open tabs?
Nah, but since I'm working chronologically, it's pretty easy to figure out where I left off. (That is, I just tab backwards until I see stuff I've already read.) Although, that said, it wouldn't surprise me if there are one or more Firefox extensions to preserve tabs reliably.
It's true that browsers can explode, but it doesn't happen often these days. Once every week or two, Firefox goes haywire and starts chewing virtual memory, forcing me to kill it -- I haven't tracked that down yet to figure out the cause. Aside from that, the tab method works pretty well for me...
Seriously, Opera's "continue where I left off last time" option at startup nearly always works after a browser crash or system crash under Linux and MacOS, and quite often works correctly under Windows as well. It's saved me after power outages, and after random system misbehaviour. If any of the browsers you like has a similar feature or extension, use that browser for reading LJ.
i hav ea post-pennsic friends group, it only has peope i care about knowign all about on it. if i get morehten 48 hours behind i use that, otherwise i have around 800 messages to read...
I have 20 posts per page (it's configurable), so that's 600 posts back. So far, I haven't encountered the limit. I know there used to be one, but it's been some time since I've hit it -- I suspect they at least lengthened it a while ago...
Well, probably, but my main filter is already limited to just the people I find reasonably interesting and/or relevant to my life. Cutting it down means making harder choices -- probably necessary eventually, but not something I do lightly...
I 'solved' that problem. Now I never have to open more than 20 tabs! (Uh, I set my flist to display 50 entries per page ... right now I've caught up to skip=750. *sigh*)
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-27 05:01 pm (UTC)It's true that browsers can explode, but it doesn't happen often these days. Once every week or two, Firefox goes haywire and starts chewing virtual memory, forcing me to kill it -- I haven't tracked that down yet to figure out the cause. Aside from that, the tab method works pretty well for me...
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Date: 2005-09-30 06:18 pm (UTC)Seriously, Opera's "continue where I left off last time" option at startup nearly always works after a browser crash or system crash under Linux and MacOS, and quite often works correctly under Windows as well. It's saved me after power outages, and after random system misbehaviour. If any of the browsers you like has a similar feature or extension, use that browser for reading LJ.
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:25 pm (UTC)Thirty tabs == 30x25 = 750 posts? LJ won't let me go back that far.
Or is that thirty tabs == 3-4 pages of flist, plus 25ish specific posts you want to read?
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