Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that’s needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.
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.
Meanwhile there’s me who wipes his cache and data after every browser session…
Should have used OneTab
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.
Somebody teach the new boys what a bookmark is pls.
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.
And there’s literally dedicated extensions to tracking open tabs for you
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.
How you feel doing that is how we feel several times a month.
Because you’re doing something dumb. That’s really all there is to it.
IT guy here, you are absolutely correct, this shit is dumb and I am annoyed at my dad who does this.
I am using software in a way that suits my intent.
The ability to do this is one of the reasons I choose this software.
Do you think they’re adding vertical tabs for you people with six of them?
You have a terrible workflow.
Stop throwing that comic at people who use software as advertised.
I am using software in a way that suits my intent.
Against the intentions of that software. Square peg, round hole.
Mozilla has proudly advertised testing how Firefox handles hundreds of tabs.
There’s not some upper limit. A computer remembering a hundred things has not been impressive since the days of drum memory. Open tabs in a restored session are barely more than bookmarks.
It can handle them just fine – they’re meant to be impermanent. They never claimed you can keep hundreds of tabs open forever.
I can hammer in nails with the back of a screwdriver. That doesn’t make it the right tool for the job.
Sessions aren’t restored by coincidence. They’re meant to be persistent - that’s why there’s a mature and stress-tested feature to keep them persistent.
Go whine at someone expecting their hammer to work on a thousand nails. They don’t write on the packaging that it’ll work that long! It’s only designed for a couple dozen nails, and then you throw it out.
Tabs also need to be closed occasionally for major updates. You know how I know that? Because it happens regularly enough that you’re here whining about it.
You’re welcome to keep banging your head against that wall, but if you publically whine about how it hurts your forehead, people are gonna tell you its your own fault. And they’re right.
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How did they get a reporter into my house
Is it this person?
Firefox is not the right Tool for the job. And so many Tabs open? That doesn’t make sense in any concievable way.
What would be the right tool for the job of keeping 7k tabs open?
That just means they haven’t updated Firefox in years.
There are some judgmental assholes here. Worse than the political communities.
Do people not know about browsing history?
Or bookmarks?
Or Notepad, if the links are really that important?