Jesus, save that shit to disk and release your browser from this cache hell.
Oh she might be me.
It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I’m in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)
Why do these people not use bookmarks?
I sometimes have like 20 tabs open, but half of them are pinned which I use most of the time, and the rest is current stuff that I close when I am done with them.
Bookmarking and sorting 7k tabs sounds awful.
There are three types of tab,
1: tabs I absolutely need to see again and know I never will if I bookmark them, because I never go into my bookmarks.
2: tabs that don’t need to be bookmarked at all because I never need to see them again I just got distracted and didn’t close them or thought I’d be interested in them later but then wasn’t.
3: tabs pertaining to one of the seven projects I’m currently actively working on simultaneously.
Bookmarks solve nothing.
My browser deletes open tabs when closing. Otherwise I would drown in chaos.
People should look into tab groups. Firefox has a tab grouping feature built-in now but this is a plugin that is a bit more feature-full.
So I have tab groups for different dev projects, games, podcasts, shows, music, etc. It reduces the size of each tab group which makes it easier to actually return to the important stuff and close the stuff that doesn’t matter.
I’d recommend using bookmarks instead. There is absolutely no way where you need thousands at the same time. Save them in a logical folder structure instead!
The best of both worlds is the tree style tabs plug in. Though I do wish it was a core feature so I could get tab grouping and hide the top tab bar.
You can, but I find that if I have the tabs there, I use them or close them. I don’t use bookmarks after I make them, so they just acrue. You’re right I don’t need 7000 open tabs, just like I don’t need 7000 bookmarks. Part of the point of tab groups is you can more easily determine what tabs aren’t relevant and get rid of them, so you don’t wind up with thousands to start with.
If they’re open as tabs, even in groups, I’m incentivised to close them when they’re no longer relevant. For longer term notes I use a note-taking app that doesn’t rely on my browser or computer staying the same. I don’t like using a browser for that because it’s just not a good tool for it.
tree style tab or sidebery
bonus, with sidebery you also have panels, to add another level of classification. each panel can have it’s own pinned tabs.
What I can say for sure is that I have not seen 7500 pages on the internet in the past two years that I want to visit again.
This is relatable even if I don’t have this specific issue, but I am curious what people are saving.on their emotional support tab groups.
There is an extension to automatically backup open tabs and restore them for the hardcore tabbers.
Remember the 3-2-1 rule for backups of record breaking sessions.
My Firefox starts to get grumpy once I get to over 1000 tabs
Now there is an actually good use for AI. Have a program that bookmarks your tabs and sorts them into subfolders automatically.
You do have to click on the browser extension, or share to the app on mobile, but Karakeep does that.
I’d wager that if I actually kept every tab I opened to get to later since like, StumbleUpon, and actually resolved to get to them, that’d be it for me. I would probably have enough content to occupy the rest of my natural life without any leftover free time.
If that’s in your workflow just use sessionmanager extension (but don’t hoard them, it changes your fingerprint)
It was too much of a mess and I had to resort to using different windows in the end (but I have to be careful when I have to close Firefox and select quit from the menu instead of using the title bar button)
I miss Panorama so much
Wait, it acts differently if you do that?
Yeah, “restore session” will restore whatever you had open the last time you quit Firefox. Closing windows one by one will only quit at the last window, so that’s what it restores. If you want to close Firefox and have it restore multiple windows, you have to use “Quit”.
Yeah. If you close an individual window you’ll lose it, but you can find it again in the history menu (from the re-open closed window submenu)
If you use the quit command from the global menu (on any window) they’ll get restored next time when you launch it.
Could not relate more 🤚🙂↕️
I have like 30 tabs which i always force quit the app to preserve
If you quit normally and press ctrl + shift + T upon startup, the session is automatically restored.
Ctrl + shift + T is also useful to bring back tabs you accidentally closed. It brings them back in the order that you closed them (you can use the shortcut multiple times)
Browsers have a restore previous session function. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
I’ve conquered the tabs demon (cleared on exit, anything actually important goes in a proper to-do app) and the downloads folder demon (…mostly). But will I ever conquer the Inbox imp?
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