What tabs do you always have open?

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Happy_Kale888@reddit

Ninja1 and https://start.me/ with all my portals and tools in a organized list.

Start me is very underrated it takes a bit to set up but so worth as it is now muscle memory...

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Second for start.me. I have two pages with them, one is all the onprem things like switches, copiers, firewalls, even ATA’s cause who wants to remember their IP’s? And another for all the cloud portals like various MS portals, AWS portals, security products, document products, etc.

This way I can allow myself to not have 75 open tabs as I don’t need to remember what all I have open or need access to, I can just scroll through my start.me pages

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PopularPianistPaul@reddit

isn't start.me just... bookmarks?

I personally have all that you mentioned in my bookmarks bar, I'm not sure I see the benefit

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mmmmmmmmmmmmark@reddit

All I use it for is bookmarks but I believe you can do other things too. The draws for me are:

That I can access the page on any browser on any device. Once I SSO to start.me
The pages look good and organized and I can expand and shrink sections if I need to. I tried to make an HTML page but it just didn’t look good.
I bought a pro lifetime license for $70 so that’s a good one-time investment.

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elpollodiablox@reddit

Community access for a team?

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zalatik@reddit

Confluence page?

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ShelterMan21@reddit

SharePoint does the same thing and is already included with your Microsoft 365 subscription.

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trw419@reddit

My computer crashed this week a few times and I was always losing my edge browser tabs. I was genuinely looking for something like this. Thank you!

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BigPete224@reddit

I will be using this! Amazing...

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Happy_Kale888@reddit

Yes the ultimate Admin Home Page!!!

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pugs_in_a_basket@reddit

Corporate intra, spacewalk (yes, really), several tabs for monitoring, new ticketing system, old ticketing system. National CVE list.

I have m365 on another window, a firefox profile.

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lordgoldthrone4@reddit

Yall are closing tabs?

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sogun123@reddit

After I have them more then like 10 I pick one I need and close everything else

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StaticFanatic3@reddit

Yes if I need to return to something later that’s what bookmarks of even links in my planner are for.

I genuinely can’t wrap my head around tab hoarding

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kristianroberts@reddit

New browser, new me

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lilsingiser@reddit

I just create new tab groups in chrome and hide them. Literally have a group called "junk" for those tabs I don't want to lose, but don't serve much purpose.

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anonymously_ashamed@reddit

No kidding. Even after a reboot, Ctrl shift t reopen them all and continue on 😅

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tech2but1@reddit

I've got tabs open that have stayed across at least 3 machine upgrades now! Gonna get round to doing that thing one day...

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NSFW_IT_Account@reddit (OP)

yes but only a few lol

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arkiverge@reddit

If you looked at my fiancés browser the obvious answer would be, “All of them.”

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_mux_@reddit

Okta

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movieguy95453@reddit

Lately it's Intune, Gemini, and phpMyAdmin

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Virtual_Ordinary_119@reddit

Ticketing system, monitoring platform, project management tool

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A_Nerdy_Dad@reddit

Ticketing system, Reddit. Usually man pages too these days and whatever I'm currently researching to implement.

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ORA2J@reddit

Ticket, exchange, and tools for phone support.

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aguynamedbrand@reddit

Cloudflare and GoDaddy Corporate Domains

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badLettuce01@reddit

ITSM, vSphere, EAC, Entra ID, IPAM, gitea... I can keep going🤣

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PurpleFlerpy@reddit

ITGlue, Entra admin, Exchange admin, MS Purview, SentinelOne, multiple RMMs, and then YouTube for music to relieve the MSP-induced depression.

Looking for internal work - if you'd be interested in showing a security analyst a different set of always-open tabs, hit me up.

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geegol@reddit

Ticketing system, asset management system, RMM, IAM system, Azure AD,

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transham@reddit

Similar here....

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g3n3@reddit

I try to keep the browser with ephemeral tabs. All the work should be in the shell.

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MrHankee666@reddit

Who needs a web browser anyway? Azure adminm How about doing it in a PS session?

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drkmccy@reddit

Enough to only see favicons

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notintheface9876@reddit

Nice try

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Demented-Alpaca@reddit

Reddit, Our ticketing system, the telephone servers (I'm the telephony asshole) and whatever I Googled last.

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Fatel28@reddit

Real question. Was blaming the network part of your formal training, or is it like a dad joke situation, where the instinct comes with the role?

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CantankerousCretin@reddit

The funny thing is... it's usually the network not playing nice, or in last week's case, Comcast just not passing any SIP traffic.

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Demented-Alpaca@reddit

It's the easy answer when I don't want to deal with it.

Even to a good network engineer networking is like 30% "I dunno, it just fuckin works"

If my end is working and your end is working but together they're not working it MUST be the network. Right? See, now it's someone else's problem and by the time you get the network engineer to look at it the problem is probably resolved. Or it's the end of the day and now it can be future me's problem.

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jdptechnc@reddit

My company's SSO portal (linked to essential apps like our ITSM, PAM, AWS landing zone, Confluence, etc typically spun off into other tabs), a SharePoint library, Copilot, Google, regex101.

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QuantenWitzbold@reddit

Youtube, PugInARug.com, Reddit

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myg0t_Defiled@reddit

Ticketing system, latest GPRESULT, latest vulnerability report

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MrNegativ1ty@reddit

Zendesk and NinjaRMM

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NSFW_IT_Account@reddit (OP)

Do you actively use the Ninja tab? Mine is usually up but i don't check it daily

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MrNegativ1ty@reddit

Yeah when I need to remote into someone's PC for troubleshooting

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bbbbbthatsfivebees@reddit

We use ScreenConnect for that because the search is just so much faster compared to NinjaRMM. Don't get me wrong, Ninja's search is AWESOME, but for whatever reason ScreenConnect is just faster at finding hostnames and current users when you've got 4000+ devices.

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discogcu@reddit

Wankspider, pornhub and my local job search site.

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captkrahs@reddit

Jira and YouTube

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dukandricka@reddit

None.

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tehreal@reddit

Hotel California

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mndbndr873@reddit

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, ConnectWise, NinjaRMM. In private tab, MS 365 admin.

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Myriade-de-Couilles@reddit

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini

I think he meant when you are working

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mndbndr873@reddit

Yep. While working. We have internal AI with CGPT and Copilot. Gemini is just there for when I want to compare.

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InternalCultural447@reddit

Jesus Christ dude, have a thought on your own.

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GuessSecure4640@reddit

I've never seen it abbreviated as CGPT 😂

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elemental5252@reddit

Wish my company was this forward thinking. We block EVERY AI system. I have to use AI on mobile.

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palebleudot@reddit

Why in a private tab?

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mndbndr873@reddit

I connect to multiple MS365 tenants with named accounts.

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palebleudot@reddit

Ah ok, I use different browser profiles

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gumbrilla@reddit

Far better, and I pin them to my bar, with a different colour/icon..

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mndbndr873@reddit

I use to do that but I ended up with so many tabs open with different colors that I had to hover over the tab to read the name. This way keeps me honest with closing stale pages.

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Recent_Carpenter8644@reddit

Browser profiles are in a different window. I Edge and Chrome at least.

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ma--sc@reddit

It isn‘t recommended to use Private Tabs for M365 access.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-kerai-cyber_microsoft-token-entra-activity-7326939086009626624-5CM3?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/concept-token-protection

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Fatel28@reddit

Firefox containers. Game changer.

Or just use gdap

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mndbndr873@reddit

I find GDAP to sometimes be buggy. That said, as a MSP, we have a whole veriety of different customers with a full range of different proceedures up to and including CMMC customers. Sometimes is seems counter productive, but I don't get to make all the rules as a TAM.

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Fatel28@reddit

Yeah. Anything I can't use gdap for, Firefox containers works great.

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anonymousITCoward@reddit

I do the same for the same reason. IMO less chance of doing something in the wrong tenant...

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mndbndr873@reddit

Most days I also have the Meraki portal open as well.

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Jawshee_pdx@reddit

Nice try Mr Hacker.

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_doki_@reddit

On firefox: Internal ticketing system, datto, VM cluster, remote VM clusters 1 and 2, firewall and vpn web interfaces On chrome: one profile with the 365 admin panel of my company, another with our parent company 365 admin panel Still on chrome but configured as "standalone app-thingies" because they seem to somehow work better: monitoring, our DMS, internal wiki for documentation, one note (my company on desktop app, while parent company's on tab)

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Littleboof18@reddit

Porn

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Smeg84@reddit

HaloITSM, every ServiceNow instance I'm developing in, 365 Admin Centre, Copilot.

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Glittering_Wafer7623@reddit

If it’s a good day, just Reddit, Gmail (we use Google Workspace) and RMM (NinjaOne).

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Botto71@reddit

r/sysadmin

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duckseasonfire@reddit

The last 97 things I opened.

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techtornado@reddit

I have everything open

My boss asked me how all 30 tabs open were work related

Research

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osricson@reddit

All of them....

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techtornado@reddit

gif

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Recent_Carpenter8644@reddit

Ticketing system and sotware deployment system in one Edge profile window. 365 admin centre in another Edge profile window to avoid MS account clashes. Private stuff in Chrome so I don't pollute my profile with work stuff and vice versa. Google seaches in another Edge window so I can close the whole lot without accidentally closing something important. The profile windows are pinned to the taskbar so their position never changes.

I use a browser extension to close tabs that haven't been active for 2 hours. I can't believe that works for me, after years of using tabs as a de facto to do list. Anything worth looking at again gets a bookmark.

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Narrow_Victory1262@reddit

whatsapp, the ticketing system and the timesheet-stuff.

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homelab-enthusiast@reddit

Io calculator

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shizakapayou@reddit

365 admin centers, Copilot, company apps, and whatever was on my mind three days ago I never closed the tabs for, mostly. Too many tabs for a sane person in Edge, Chrome (multiple profiles, too) and Firefox at once, but it works for me. Oh, and I like Safari the least, so a single tab running whichever music I’m using at the moment.

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saltintheexhaustpipe@reddit

use vertical tabs, 37 tabs doesn’t look so bad when it’s listed vertically haha

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ashramrak@reddit

Por...

Err, wikipedia, yeah, wikipedia

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anonymousITCoward@reddit

RMM/PSA, I've got reddit lurking about, not an AI user so google and what ever I'm looking into at that time.

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RandomSkratch@reddit

All the tabs...

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energy980@reddit

Email and ticketing system

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uptimefordays@reddit

Work tracking, documentation, etc. I’ve got ~15 pinned tabs and another like 30 unpinned tabs. I’m becoming ungovernable like the rest of the world lol.

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Th3Sh4d0wKn0ws@reddit

Defender portal
3 different Azure Portal tabs to different places
Two different Splunk instances, dashboards
and then a Windows Terminal instance with Windows PowerShell, PowerShell Core, and an SSH session to a linux box

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AlexM_IT@reddit

Our internal portal, Fresh service, and NinjaRMM.

Everything else as needed. I hate having tons of tabs open.

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AlexM_IT@reddit

Our internal portal, Fresh service, and NinjaRMM.

Everything else as needed. I hate having tons of tabs open.

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Bose_Motile@reddit

Personal Gmail (work email I use EMClient)
Screenconnect Portal
Company Wiki (between the wiki and bookmarks I can get to anything I need)

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_SleezyPMartini_@reddit

https://bgp.tools/

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ejhall@reddit

gif

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Jewels_1980@reddit

Autotask, Datto, IT glue,365 admin center, defender, and Coro.

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solracarevir@reddit

A self hosted Bookmark manager where I have all our internal and external Sites and tools. If it has a web interface I have it listed there.

Our Internal monitoring tool Dashboard

Uptime monitor for Internal and External websites

Copilot

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JazzlikeAmphibian9@reddit

Microsoft Learn, Ticket system, RMM system, Documentation,

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gumbrilla@reddit

Which browser profile?

Work: various work related SAAS portals - for everything from Tenable to Ticketing system
Admin: Intune, AWS, Entra, Azure normally
Personal: reddit, youtube, twitter

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