Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session

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

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.

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

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.

Do people not know about browsing history?

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.

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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 is not the right Tool for the job. And so many Tabs open? That doesn't make sense in any concievable way.

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.

if you want to keep something forever, you gotta make backups

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...

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.

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.

Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that's needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.

Is it this person?

Somebody teach the new boys what a bookmark is pls.

I usually save neither the browsing history neither the opened tabs. I add interesting pages in bookmarks, but rarely check them again.

Should make that a feature

Should have used OneTab

How do you even navigate that many tabs?

People can keep 5-10 things in their short term memory. Anything beyond that you can't feasibly multitask with so it should be a bookmark instead of a tab.

Maybe browsers should merge the two functions. (We already have pinned tabs too)

Been there, done that. 😓

(Though a couple times I was able to recover them or a sufficiently close session.)

There are some judgmental assholes here. Worse than the political communities.

Tab session manager that difficult to install? 😮‍💨

Frankly I think even the people with 25+ tabs open have a problem.

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