This says more about the user with 7,000 opened tabs than anything about firefox
Yeah there’s no practical way to manage thousands of browser tabs in your workflow, that’s just digital hoarding.
I wish we could resurrect his session just to see how many tabs were duplicates.
Or how much porn they were looking at
Even if you had a system that could … the average mind isn’t able to process and remember that many items of data … there’s a reason why they came up with seven digit phone numbers decades ago … most people are capable of recalling on average about seven numbers in a sequence … anything beyond that takes more training … anything beyond about a hundred things takes years of memory training … and anything beyond a thousand things is a one a million freak ability combined with training.
O one one eight nine nine nine, eight eight one nine nine, nine one one nine seven two five… three!
As a developer, this use case is not even an edge case, it’s a fringe use case.
It’s more a psychological case
7,470 Tabs?!?!?!
As ridiculous as this story is, Firefox does kill my tabs way too often. At least on my PCs.
In the Firefox appdata, there are session backup files. You can restore tabs by just renaming a few files. Don’t ask me how I know.
They did do that, this article just sucks
I thought my friend having 100+ open was bad.
I reguralary force myself to get a clean slate every few month when I cross 1k 😸
Your poor RAM.
I often go through a late night browsing session and open up three or four Firefox windows with ten to 12 tabs in each … but after about an hour it all just becomes too confusing and distracting. So I got in the habit of just nuking everything every hour or so. Just shutdown all of firefox and restart again.
If I found anything significant, then it was bookmarked, noted, turned into a PDF or documented some other way.
Stuff that had a bit of importance go into bookmarks, more important info is noted with the link, stuff that is very important is fully documented, linked and turned into pdf. Everything else is just forgotten because they weren’t that important.
So, a normal user, lol. I may reach 50ish during my “late night browsing” but close them once I’m done. I’ve fallen into the same 5 websites for everything habit.
The article makes me think the user would have some sort of OCD about tabs.
yeah, and?
There are extensions for this sort of thing… i have probably 40 or 50 tabs stored in groups, but i use a tab group extension to allow me to store tabs based on context, and switch between them easily. Ive got my normal tabs, my shopping tabs, tabs for learning stuff for blender, programming tabs, all grouped off so i normally only ever have 10ish tabs open at a time.
While this might seem like a horror story for those who value their browsing tabs and history (and for systems with Chrome browsers), Hazel retrieved those tabs-of-treasure thanks to the X community explaining how to restore an old Firefox browsing session from the profiles cache.
Good news for her. But I must say that’s not a healthy way to use a web browser. Even on my phone at about 50 Firefox tabs I will clear them all. If I was that crazy I would have 10 backup copies of the profiles cache file so I’d never lose it.
…and nothing of value was lost…
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That reminds me, I need to close some tabs. I have…
Huh, 802 across five windows
I use quite a decent amount of disk space with tab backups.
