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I'm not going to be wasting my time, closing and sorting tabs, I have many thousands of pages to read and I can't be spending half my time deciding when and whether I am done with this or that group of thousand more tabs.
I have tab manager plus for searching tabs, and most of the time this works great when I've lost of a tab. But there's one really annoying trouble, it can only search tab titles, it cannot search the content of tabs.
This is a severe limitation but far from the only one. Bookmarks don't even save the information inside the tab, the browser just assumed the information on the server could be retrieved forever so it does not save any of it.
I could go on all day about all the limitation of this browser but it's still the best. The cutting edge is a blunt knife from 1996.
As for the browser history, the pages are listed in order of opening date
So that doesn't help find my tab, which could be any one of the thousands of tabs.
My ideal browser, could search find a video, based on a loose text description, without accessing the internet to do it.
But we are really far from that !
do you really have to read all of them? do you really have no time to sort tabs and remove unneeded ones?
I can't tell if they're unneeded without reading them. Reading them is also needed to sort them. How else to know what to sort them as or if they don't contain information other than reading them. If I had an integrated AI, maybe it could do this tedious task for me, but there isn't currently such as thing that works with my self hosted AI.
I see things sometimes and I'm like yeah i should read that and I bookmark it and then its gone to the void, never to be heard from again. On my phone I leave the tab open and its the same thing, but pretty regularly I go in and maybe bookmark some, or just kill the rest. If i don't read it then and there, its unlikely I'm working my way back to find the thing. Even if i save a post, its rarely getting a look in. Sometimes I look at my youtube watch later videos, but I'm probably not saving anything on current events in that.
Yes the current system basically cannot handle this much information. At some point there is no choice but to take the whole thing and send it to the trash bin (bookmarks)