Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases?<p>Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain.<p>Never understood this.
>A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever."<p>So they are not that different from bookmarks then?
“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted
> Mozilla says it plans to roll out a new profiles feature and a new tab organization feature later this year;<p>Finally. I hope we get tab groups that work with multi containers.
If I really wanted to keep a record of all the sites I've been to for historic reasons like this person there are far easier/better ways to do that. I'd even set it up to download a local copy of the sites I visit so that they'd be there even if the sites went offline.<p>I have 298 tabs across 8 windows open right now and I can already tell firefox is about to crash at any moment. I go to about:memory and mash the buttons in the "free memory" box to buy some extra time, but eventually firefox goes down in flames and I lose all my open tabs. When it does finally crash Firefox can never restore my tabs, but I blame myself/my settings for that.<p>When things get to this point where I know firefox will die soon I end up bookmarking them all or even copying each URL into a text document with dreams that I'll go back to them after my browser has been closed and re-opened, but I almost never manage it. At least I have the option I guess and I know that if I ever do I'll find things that are of interest to me. There's just no shortage of other things that are of interest to me online so the newest stuff tends to win out.
I've had 7000 tabs open as well (currently 3700, I backup the session file and start again every half year or so). What I think would be handy would be if tabs would be auto-grouped by domain name, and that I could define domain groups (like work, newspapers, computing sites, youtube, etc.).
Something I'm still looking for is a way to manage "browser stuff" which would fit my workflow.<p>Basically I want to be able to turn a window full of tabs into some kind of document, where I can add metadata about the window and tabs, organized into sections, and which creates an archive of each page while maintaining the option of reloading the latest version if it still happens to exist.<p>This would also involve a better way to select a bunch of tabs at once and move them to the window they belong on.<p>If anyone knows of something which works this way, I'd love to hear about it.
I like Session Buddy for Chrome. It saves all of your tabs & windows as dated collections. You can also manually save and label sets. When researching, I will often have 100+ tabs open sorted into different windows, and it's nice to be able to save the session for later.<p><a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?pli=1" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/session-buddy/edacc...</a>
I don’t need 7400, but I do have about 50-100 open in different spaces (personal/work/hobbies).<p>What Firefox lacks for me, is the ability to sync these open tabs to different devices seamlessly.<p>The only browsers that do this well right now are Edge and Arc browser, and this is the reason I abandoned Firefox about 1 year ago.
"Firefox View", accessible via a pinned-tab-like button at the beginning of the tab strip gives a good way already to manage lots of tabs. It allows to search tab titles from all Firefox windows and gives access to tabs on connected devices and the browsing history.
Wow, I never crossed the 2000 line, 7400 is quite a feat. Also Firefox doesn't suffer visibly until 800~ on my old laptop, and it starts to show above 1500. Thanks for supporting hoarders like us.