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by tony-allan 957 days ago
I have lots of tabs open in a dozen windows in 8 MacOS desktops. Each window is current project focussed + Mail, News and Entertainment. I work my 16GB of RAM very hard with many bloated web pages.

I don't like the environment much but I care about the time to context switch between projects (with text, email, and phone interrupts).

I also find the sign-in process to be very broken and an attempt to reduce the sign-in time is my major issue. It is a lot worse with many 2FA authorisation schemes — TOTP, email, text message, open this or that app on my phone.

If the time to open a new tab (including the sign-in process) was 50ms then I would have one window and use some mechanism to open a set of tags.

Perhaps a tab group suspend function that frees up resources and securely saves authentication state and context information?