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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session
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I don’t understand people who use a million tabs. Most I’ll have is like ten. And that’s if I’m deep in a problem in a project. I hate clutter
some people visit many different sites, continuously throughout the day, and it doesn't make sense to keep reopening tabs, plus then you forget about it
That is fine, open as many tabs as you want, but don't keep a shitload of tabs open between sessions
Then you're really not doing that much research. I can easily open 20 to 50 tabs for just one project. I'm not defending leaving them open. I've finally started to address the problem by learning how to take notes. I chose Joplin for this.
Autism/ADHD is a bitch for some things and note taking and writing up research has never just "come to me".
I’m autistic as well and having that many tabs open gives me anxiety. I mainly code, and when I find a solution I either bookmark it until I can use it, it I use it and then close it. Maybe not immediately, but I try not to have so many open the broader can’t show them in the tab bar. Because it gets really disorganized after that
Bookmarking is great- I never use them again though!
The satisfaction of solving an issue, making a note in comments where the fix/solution/documentation came from, then closing the 20 odd browser tabs and being able to move on is great.
That is fine, the issue is not having 500+ tabs open, but having 500+ tabs persistantly open between sessions
ADHD and easier to type a url than open a new tab. People that can maintain a curated tab list.. I wish my brain would allow it.
Once a day I close browsers to make sure there’s not some work item I forgot to hit post on.
In AuDHD and I hate tabs. I'm worse at work but I don't go over 5 or 6 tabs
I set my important links in the bookmarks tab, and if I need anything else, I hit Ctrl+t, type the first letter, and I'm there 90% of the time faster than sifting for the right tab
Unchecked "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results" in Firefox and made this easier for me :)
I'm going to read it later, really! If I make it a bookmark I'd have to organize it now, which is effort.
Screw all those replies amounting to 'stop having that problem.'
Mozilla has previously bragged about testing how Firefox handles hundreds of tabs. If you feel cramped opening a dozen - my condolences. But get out of our way. We're using all this RAM we paid for.
No.
I'm not done with them yet.
I am using this many tabs, after pruning. It's not just opening everything and closing nothing. 99% get closed in a timely fashion. This is the rest. This is what's left despite routine passes to weed out what's no longer relevant enough to get back to.
All of y'all scoffing 'use bookmarks' act like a Bookmarks folder thousands of items long would be any more manageable or convenient. Bookmarks don't even use less RAM since tabs started lazy-loading. Bookmarks also don't go away when you open them and decide you're done. You have to find it in the big dumb list to open it, do whatever, and then find it in the big dumb list to remove it. God help you if we're talking about a group of tabs instead of exactly one page.
There used to be this perfect plugin called Read It Later. You'd click the icon and the tab would go onto a list, and opening it from that list would remove it. This did exactly what I wanted until it became Pocket and enshittified into a cloud service. And then Mozilla forced that cloud service on everyone by bundling its "recommendation" spam into the goddamn browser, forcibly uninstalling the old version I was still using.
I have been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox. I don't care if you use it differently from me. Extend the same courtesy.
The issue is not about having a lot of tabs open, the issue is when people expect their tabs to be open between sessions.
Open 427362728 tabs if you want, but don't expect them to open on restarting the session
Would you spit this at someone annoyed that all their bookmarks got deleted? Because restored tabs don't take much more storage or memory than that. And if you don't expect your computer to remember those kilobytes of information, buy a better computer.