who does that?!

How can it be in any way useful to keep 7000 open tabs?

Has she not heard of bookmarks?

I am thoroughly confused

I'll say it again - anyone who needs (or let's be honest, thinks they need) hundreds of thousands of open tabs has something wrong with their brain and should probably see a professional about it.

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

Do people not know about browsing history?

Is this a new mental illness I haven't heard of?

In an interview with PCMag, Hazel said she keeps all those tabs open because she likes “to scroll back and see clusters of tabs from months ago — it’s like a trip down memory lane on whatever I was doing/learning about/thinking about.” So, when she recovered her 7,000+ tab browsing session, she said, “I feel like a part of me is restored.”

Actually that's kinda cool. I shouldn't be a hater.

Firefox fixes someones mental illness...

Commas, like tabs, are free and convenient.

Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs, saved over two years, after they can’t restore browsing session

Firefox is not the right Tool for the job. And so many Tabs open? That doesn't make sense in any concievable way.

Did you know that Firefox has this cool new option (spoiler: it's not new), that lets you bookmark websites into folders and when you click on that folder from your toolbar it says "Open All in Tabs" at the bottom of the list. BAM! Tabs restored.

How did they get a reporter into my house

I seem to remember a post on Lemmy from a user asking about how to keep a browser responsive with about 10,000 tabs open so it's certainly a usage pattern for some.

Good.

This instance demonstrates Firefox’s memory management capabilities, which put unused tabs to sleep to save memory via Tab Unloading. Mozilla released this feature with Firefox 93 in October 2021

This has been a thing since at least 2012.

Tab Stash people, its the perfect extension for tab hoarders like me. It saves and closes all your opened tabs as bookmarks with a single click, and gives you a neat view of everything you saved.

if you want to keep something forever, you gotta make backups

Meanwhile there's me who wipes his cache and data after every browser session...

Get some help.

When a confessed degenerate says that, you have a problem.

I've been betrayed early enough and often enough to take monthly backups of my profile and export tab lists as text files. Just in case.

All of you going 'well that's not my use case' don't have to get it, you just have to shut up and let us do our thing. Yours is the same aggravating attitude as 'so what if the computer reboots to forcibly update?' Listen: go to whatever physical space you've carefully organized, dump all that shit onto the floor, and then pick it back up piece by piece to make it right again. How you feel doing that is how we feel several times a month.

AKA User was so stupid, he or she should better not use a computer in the first place.

Is it this person?