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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
The article explains that she likes to look at tabs in the past as a reminder of something she was interested in.
It’s sort of a snapshot in time. I get it. But hell no I’m closing tabs.
"Look, just add in an option to re-enable spacebar heating."
You can bookmark a whole window full of tabs all into a single bookmark folder. It's called "bookmark all tabs" or something like that. Then later you can open all of them again into a new window using a single button again.
I know the average person isn't tech savvy, but this loss is almost entirely on themself. If you have 7000 tabs open and it's important to you that they stay saved, then it's on you to simply ASK someone if keeping them open is an ok way to do it
This is hoarder behaviour, so I wouldn’t expect it to make sense as a general statement
Man if only firefox had some kinda feature that you could see your previous activity. Something akin to a history of what you did in the browser.
I have 4 virtual desktops, usually each with their own Firefox instance. I still have less than 10 tabs open.
YOU DON'T NEED THAT MANY TABS
There's a tool I use at work for administrating Apple devices and it opens about four tabs for every profile you look at. You can quickly stack up to about 50 tabs. Utterly stupid programming.
But I'm not using it I have maybe 12 tabs open at a time.
I have a practical but niche answer to this. This is actually a bit of a wall of text but tldr: Not quite a power-user. Got 1.5k tabs, Bookmarks and Browser history lack proper system and contextual integration, are a poor experience to review, navigate, categorize for me, and many integrations make tabs effortless to work with, group up, and accumulate. Looking a bit into other systems and I can definitely see benefits but what I have works pretty well for me.
I'm not as much of a poweruser but I generally will have between 800 and 1,500 tabs open on my desktop with Floorp which is a Firefox fork with native web app support and a bunch of neat customization features. This is mainly because I find history and bookmarking features to be rather inconvenient to maintain especially for deep internet rabbitholes and complex projects that can have multiple topics or differing levels of priority to reference. Firefox and Floorp allow users to instantly search through their tabs using the search bar and this tends to be very helpful although I also will like to have older versions of websites cached or loaded locally so I can make comparisons, review through collections of tasks and their related segments which I have previously worked on, or see how homepages and different segments of the web have adapted as a whole or personalized for me over time. I can basically have my own pocket of the Internet curated for me which I don't need to go out of my way to find or maintain.
Now something to note is that it's a surprisingly efficient process, Most of the tabs themselves don't need to actually be active in memory with the browser in total generally using less than 8 gigabytes of ram and under 10% of my cpu when active. I have plenty of tab management extensions, Floorp provides a scroll bar at the top for multi-row tabs, Flow Launcher (ridiculously powerful search tool which can be run as a system-wide programmable hotkey.) within Windows has integration both for checking existing tabs and instantly opening new ones. It's pretty slick except when my browser is first rebuilding after a full reboot as that can take around two minutes to complete from disk.
I think the main thing at least for me is just that other resources and tools (Been looking into the raindrop bookmark manager.) might be more efficient for me to learn in the long run but I tend to be working on dozens of projects at once anyways and actively going out of my way to adapt to a new system like that would be counterproductive in the moment where it counts.
Hope this has been a helpful and insightful look into my process. I could probably attach screenshots or video later although I feel like this is sufficient as-is.
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.
Isn't it just hoarding but in digital space?
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
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".
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.
But... Firefox has a history feature that would serve her purpose much better?
Do people not know about browsing history?
Or bookmarks?
Or Notepad, if the links are really that important?
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
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.
What’s the point tho? It’s not like you’re actively using the 10k tabs.
It’s an impossible amount of tabs to manage so the only explanation is they are opened, looked at once, and then thrown into an abyss for another tab to be opened in a continuous cycle.
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.
Firefox fixes someones mental illness...
Nope, according to the article, someone told her how to restore the tabs from the session file.
Firefox is not the right Tool for the job. And so many Tabs open? That doesn't make sense in any concievable way.
That just means they haven't updated Firefox in years.
How did they get a reporter into my house
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
Just screenshot your tabs. 😇
Meanwhile there's me who wipes his cache and data after every browser session...
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.
My dad does this, he allways restores his tabs and hardly ever use bookmarks.
I had to help him migrate this shitshow to his new computer, and whenever it breaks he gets really upset.
He likes being able to have access to the history of every tab.
I may be an IT guy but I could not stand doing this.
AKA User was so stupid, he or she should better not use a computer in the first place.
