People should look into tab groups. Firefox has a tab grouping feature built-in now but this is a plugin that is a bit more feature-full.
So I have tab groups for different dev projects, games, podcasts, shows, music, etc. It reduces the size of each tab group which makes it easier to actually return to the important stuff and close the stuff that doesn’t matter.
I’d recommend using bookmarks instead. There is absolutely no way where you need thousands at the same time. Save them in a logical folder structure instead!
The best of both worlds is the tree style tabs plug in. Though I do wish it was a core feature so I could get tab grouping and hide the top tab bar.
You can, but I find that if I have the tabs there, I use them or close them. I don’t use bookmarks after I make them, so they just acrue. You’re right I don’t need 7000 open tabs, just like I don’t need 7000 bookmarks. Part of the point of tab groups is you can more easily determine what tabs aren’t relevant and get rid of them, so you don’t wind up with thousands to start with.
If they’re open as tabs, even in groups, I’m incentivised to close them when they’re no longer relevant. For longer term notes I use a note-taking app that doesn’t rely on my browser or computer staying the same. I don’t like using a browser for that because it’s just not a good tool for it.
tree style tab or sidebery
bonus, with sidebery you also have panels, to add another level of classification. each panel can have it’s own pinned tabs.
I have like 30 tabs which i always force quit the app to preserve
Browsers have a restore previous session function. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
If you quit normally and press ctrl + shift + T upon startup, the session is automatically restored.
Ctrl + shift + T is also useful to bring back tabs you accidentally closed. It brings them back in the order that you closed them (you can use the shortcut multiple times)
Thank you soo much
And here I was worried about my 70ish tabs
I have 3 firefox windows open at all times each with 30 to 50 tabs and i save them regularly in the tabs library so that i can re-open them whenever i want. There’s a re-open all tabs button when clicking on a tabs folder.
I yeet tabs all the time. Figure I will find it again if xenu wills it.
Why don’t y’all just use bookmarks or even just go back thru the homepage sometimes? Managing tons of stale tabs can’t be that much easier?
Tree style tabs and unloaded tabs has it easier than bookmarking imo It’s like I can navigate all my bookmarks spatially, activating any of them rather rhan navigating through the ui to see which link was which
bookmarks are for repeated access, tabs are for one-time things that you’re going to get to any day now
Amen!
Loading up the same tab each day is not repeated use? And you can also have folders in bookmarks. Ctrl+B Ctrl+W Bookmark added to last save location and tab closed.
if you don’t click them, they don’t load. and if i can’t see the thing i’ll forget about it.
How many can you see even? 20 or maybe 30 if only the icons load?
Keeping this many of anything in working memory is also not possible without forgetting.
Definitely not hundreds so the point about visibility is kind of mute.
The lengths people will go to not use bookmarks…
These are bookmarks with extra steps!
no, fewer steps. these auto-arrange themselves into hierarchies based on browsing history, meaning you always have context for why a page was opened.
bookmark it in the temporary todo folder.
having 7k+ bookmarks is more manageable than 7k+ browser tabs.
Best I got is 1k.
It was too much mess and I had to resort to using different windows in the end (but I have to be careful when I have to close Firefox and select quit from the menu instead of using the title bar button)
Wait, it acts differently if you do that?
Yeah, “restore session” will restore whatever you had open the last time you quit Firefox. Closing windows one by one will only quit at the last window, so that’s what it restores. If you want to close Firefox and have it restore multiple windows, you have to use “Quit”.
I miss Panorama so much
Jesus, save that shit to disk and release your browser from this cache hell.
If that’s in your workflow just use sessionmanager extension (but don’t hoard them, it changes your fingerprint)
Oh she might be me.
It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I’m in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)
Now there is an actually good use for AI. Have a program that bookmarks your tabs and sorts them into subfolders automatically.
I had nearly 50 fennec tabs on my phone
once i get more tabs than i can easily see on my screen, i start getting stressed out…
I don’t think I have ADHD but oftentimes I forget that the tab I need is already open. There is that feature that switches you to a tab if it matches your search query in the browser bar, but somehow I keep searching in ways that circumvent that feature ¯_(ツ)_/¯
