Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

That ain't no power user, that's a lazy tech who needs to clean up after himself and close a browser window every once in awhile.

What an idiot, thats why I have 7,400 bookmarks that I never intend to sort.

How is that a "power user"? That's just a poor way to use the browser. It's basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can't even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.

A power user would use something called "bookmarks" to organise that better.

This must be her "superpower base"

I have no idea why anyone would do that, but for the bookmark collectors, checkout "404 bookmarks" which detects websites that are down.

Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though

I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs... How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I've just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like I'm the master of the internet.

In this comment section I have found my people

TAB HOARDERS, UNITE!

i appreciate ff can do this and all, but isnt this usecase covered by you know, the browser history?

Maybe it's just my ADHD, but I can't even imagine managing that many tabs.

In my workflow, I start a project, then keep opening new tabs as I need to look things up, frequently moving tabs between multiple browsers spanning my 32" monitor. So long as I'm working on that problem, I just keep opening new tabs.

Then, when I've finally squared away the section of the project I was working on, I usually just close the browser entirely and start fresh.

Needing to manually sift through the 80+ tabs I chaotically opened in the last hour or so to figure out what's worth keeping? Hell no. That's what browser history is for. It's Etch-a-Sketch time! Shake it clean and start fresh.

I have three open and feel like its a bit much.

I understand it since switching to vertical tabs via Sidebery. You can organize them into panels/groups/nested hierarchy, and tabs are only reloaded when you open them, so it's not as if you maintain 7k tabs in RAM. Think of it more like bookmarks that are actually organized and useful. It's what bookmarks might have been if not for Pocket.

A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever."

Is there an extension to change this? I literally want to keep all of my tabs in memory no matter what. It drives me nuts when I change tabs and it reloads the page, or the bank website will only load slowly while I'm looking at its tab.

TIL my dad is a power user with his ":D" tabs in Chrome on Android /s

Putting bookmarks in Folders, and using keywords for frequently visited sites is enough for me.

This makes me feel better about the 100-200 tabs I have perpetually open.

I have only 64gb so 1500-2000 with about 60 addons the practical limit. Really wish wevhad better management tools and VM like controls for tabs. There is still headroom in the system but the problem is operations that wake up too many tabs too fast

ADHD moment

"I have so many topics I want to look at at once!" proceeds to get distracted with one of them and forget about all the others

I dunno if I should be honored or terrified to know such people walk amongst us mortals.

Of course I know him, he's me.

God, I think I had 500 open on my old phone alone... Though I usually don't pass 50 on desktop, because they're easier to manage and harder to bury or forget about

I wish there was an option to keep certain integral tabs open fully.. Annoying when I need to copy some code and it relaunches

Imagine if you accidentally hit "reload all"...

Imagine her reaction when she finds out that firefox got a browsing history feature

My grandma doesn't understand what tabs are and never closes them either.

I can’t imagine keeping tabs open between tasks

I wonder if they were using FF back when they had the Panorama feature back in the day. That many tabs seems like it would be great for organizing everything. It is almost hilarious to think that FF was so far ahead of the game that it just didn't make sense. Now all the other major browsers are adding some kind of tab groups feature.

The way FF did it was cool and was like having virtual desktops but groups of tabs. Aside from proper vertical tabs that keeps theme and doesn't require hacking settings to get rid of the horizontal row (Edge and Brave are good examples as their hover to expand titles and collapse when using the pages are smooth). Bringing back grouping tabs like Panorama had them would be really cool to have again.

Though I would love to see a blend of nice vertical tabs and groups like what I see in screenshots of browsers like Arc. Very different looking but in a good way. If FF could make their own spin of that UI work with both vertical and horizontal tabs. It would be dope af.

Should try that in chrome

Hazel sounds like my soulmate. I have a good 1500+ tabs open on any given moment

Hoarders Household power users

So anyone can be a power user if they never close their tabs?

Rookie numbers tbh.

That's barely two projects that I won't event finish worth of research.

hell

Damn, that's a lot of tabs.

So from a security mindset, this is a nightmare. This person must be a paid plant for Big Cross-Site-Tracking

If I want to keep a site longer than a day I bookmark it. I have no clue how anyone can cope with this many tabs, it's like an email backlog but for your browser.

im a scrub with just around 1k and opening and closing my browser a few times a week.

And here am I, getting twitchy the moment the tab size shrinks. I can't imagine having so many tabs open.

It's bad enough my brain already does that by itself

I use Tab Stash if I'm about to close/restart the browser or I changed the focus of my research, but if I don't wanna lose some keywords or something, I prefer to use KNotes (or any sticky notes) and write why some keywords are important and their context, so I don't have to maintain too many open tabs. Just yesterday I had like 15 tabs and was overwhelmed lol

This makes me feel good about my 300+ open tabs😅

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how quickly did his or her ram melt?