Quit Crashing the Browser.

You know, I’m not a technical expert, but I think that getting this error message . . .

. . . may have had something to do with the hundred-ish browser tabs I had open at the time. Possibly.

You know that expression “Jumping the Shark“? I’m coining a new one for myself: “Crashing the Browser.”

Just as a television series doesn’t want to “jump the shark” and slide into mediocrity, the savvy knowledge worker doesn’t want to “crash the browser” — either literally, as in this case, or figuratively, in the broader sense of trying to access so many streams of information at once that your brain shuts down.

Here endeth this lesson-to-self.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to trawl through my browser’s history (one link at a time!) to see which of those umpteen tabs were actually worth further thought.

Category: Productivity, The working life

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3 Comments so far

Bryan Person January 6th, 2009 3:53 pm

I’m guilty of “tab creep” myself; have some 25+ tabs open at the moment.

So the real question is … what do we do about it?

Tim Walker January 6th, 2009 3:57 pm

Thanks for the comment, Bryan. Two things:

1. I feel *virtuous* when I limit myself to ~25 tabs. I’m often at 70+.

2. The antidote is . . . Do One Thing at a Time. Simple in concept, hard (for me) to execute.

Bryan Person January 6th, 2009 5:02 pm

70+ ??? My goodness …

Good luck with your proposed antidote.

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