This says more about the user with 7,000 opened tabs than anything about firefox
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Bookmarks do exist.
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As a developer, this use case is not even an edge case, it's a fringe use case.
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Tabs are for sites you're currently browsing, not for archival.
There's bookmarks for that.
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I mean if it retained them for 2 years, that's pretty amazing on its own.
They still have their history, that's functionality better than having over 7k tabs open.
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.
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It wasn't over 9000, looks like the user has to start over again.
7,470 Tabs?!?!?!
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What a fucking idiot
I thought my friend having 100+ open was bad.
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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.
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.
The article makes me think the user would have some sort of OCD about tabs.
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And I felt bad having a tab counter set on ":)"
...and nothing of value was lost...
Lmao just don't be doing that wth
As ridiculous as this story is, Firefox does kill my tabs way too often. At least on my PCs.
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OneTab for the love of all that's browser
I use quite a decent amount of disk space with tab backups.
Thought it was a Beaverton article. Ctrl + Shift + D from time to time people.
ETA: Make the bookmark folder name the days date.
That reminds me, I need to close some tabs. I have...
Huh, 802 across five windows
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At first I misread it as "Firefox loser uses ...."
quickly realized that my misread also works.
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