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.”
Meanwhile no one considers whatever happened to DenverCoder9
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
How do you deal with Firefox updates?
I type
yay
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
At that point, just use archivebox instead.
Or maybe her browser history
True, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
firefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it’s not “saving” the page on exit
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.
Good.
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.
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?
No it’s probably s mental illness or something. If she like the tabs as a memoir thing, she should do what people have done on vacations for decades - take pictures (aka here as screenshots or saved pages).
So not archiving these memories in the way you would determines whether or not it is a mental illness? How is taking photos any mpre or less of a mental illness than leaving the tabs open?
Seems like quite the jump to conclusion to assume it is a mental illness.
You’re literally describing windows recall
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
if you want to keep something forever, you gotta make backups
Just screenshot your tabs. 😇
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.
AKA User was so stupid, he or she should better not use a computer in the first place.
It’s not stupid if it works (also user is satisfied). But it’s just another bug that can wipe user data, so it better gets fixed.
Just because it works it is not “not stupid”. I can accellerate my car to about 100km/h and drive it into a wall - yes, that works, but it would not exactly be smart. Having >100 tabs open in a browser is in the same category.
Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that’s needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.
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.
Frankly I think even the people with 25+ tabs open have a problem.
It’s amazing how many people think having tons of tabs is insane. How about all browsers start limiting how many tabs can be opened at a time (to accommodate proper, sane usage rules)?
Meanwhile there’s me who wipes his cache and data after every browser session…
Should make that a feature
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.
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?
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.
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.
