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Locking this post. Pretty sure everything that's needed to be said has been said so threads are devolving.
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Did you know that Firefox has this cool new option (spoiler: it's not new), that lets you bookmark websites into folders and when you click on that folder from your toolbar it says "Open All in Tabs" at the bottom of the list. BAM! Tabs restored.
BROWSING HISTORY, nuff said lmao
I seem to remember a post on Lemmy from a user asking about how to keep a browser responsive with about 10,000 tabs open so it's certainly a usage pattern for some.
Is this a new mental illness I haven't heard of?
In an interview with PCMag, Hazel said she keeps all those tabs open because she likes “to scroll back and see clusters of tabs from months ago — it’s like a trip down memory lane on whatever I was doing/learning about/thinking about.” So, when she recovered her 7,000+ tab browsing session, she said, “I feel like a part of me is restored.”
Actually that's kinda cool. I shouldn't be a hater.
No it's probably s mental illness or something. If she like the tabs as a memoir thing, she should do what people have done on vacations for decades - take pictures (aka here as screenshots or saved pages).
So not archiving these memories in the way you would determines whether or not it is a mental illness? How is taking photos any mpre or less of a mental illness than leaving the tabs open?
Seems like quite the jump to conclusion to assume it is a mental illness.
You're literally describing windows recall
No, literally describing pressing the "print screen" button
But... Firefox has a history feature that would serve her purpose much better?
Should make that a feature
AKA User was so stupid, he or she should better not use a computer in the first place.
It's not stupid if it works (also user is satisfied). But it's just another bug that can wipe user data, so it better gets fixed.
It's stupid if what the person use tabs for is what bookmarks exist for without running the risk of losing all of them.
Either browser saves your tabs on exit or it doesn't. There should not be such a risk, plain and simple. If you insist there is then please provide an exact number of tabs where it starts to happen, and/or when it becomes acceptable for it to happen.
Anytime you use a program in a way that you can't reasonably expect to have been tested you should accept that you run the risk of hitting bugs. Ex.: no one should reasonably expect devs to test having 7k tabs from different websites open when there's an existing feature for this type of usage that is 100% safe (bookmarks).
When your usage is out of the norm it's not unusual for programs to start acting weird and more often than not it's not intended and can even come from an issue with how the hardware and software work together and it might not even be possible to fix the issue.
Just because it works it is not "not stupid". I can accellerate my car to about 100km/h and drive it into a wall - yes, that works, but it would not exactly be smart. Having >100 tabs open in a browser is in the same category.
I have around 100 tabs open. If they remain opened, I can ctrl+tab in chronologic history. That's otherwise not possible.
Type ^ followed by space in the search bar. You can now simply search through your history by text. Far more efficient.
How so? As seen from article it works fine. It doesn't require terabytes of RAM. The car example is irrelevant and stupid, also will kill the car and you.
As seen from article it works fine.
As the article shows, it exactly doesn't. Would that person have complained about the loss of the stupid many tabs if firefox had been able to recover them?
Sorry what? The user was able to recover them. Such complains are valid because data was in a state where user couldn't access it as usual at some point.
Commas, like tabs, are free and convenient.
Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs, saved over two years, after they can’t restore browsing session
I'll say it again - anyone who needs (or let's be honest, thinks they need) hundreds of thousands of open tabs has something wrong with their brain and should probably see a professional about it.
Isn't it just hoarding but in digital space?
I usually save neither the browsing history neither the opened tabs. I add interesting pages in bookmarks, but rarely check them again.
Frankly I think even the people with 25+ tabs open have a problem.
It's amazing how many people think having tons of tabs is insane. How about all browsers start limiting how many tabs can be opened at a time (to accommodate proper, sane usage rules)?
Firefox Focus on Android is there and it doesn't have a button to add a new tab. You can only create one by clicking a link from those already existing. Also, just four shortcuts for some reason and no bookmarks.
It's a great default browser to open random links from your apps: no cookies, no logins, always a private tab experience. But when you need a bit more (like translating a word in an article you are reading) it's restricted. Because Moz decided that's the way it should be.
And that problem is called "ADHD"
How do you even navigate that many tabs?
People can keep 5-10 things in their short term memory. Anything beyond that you can't feasibly multitask with so it should be a bookmark instead of a tab.
Maybe browsers should merge the two functions. (We already have pinned tabs too)
if you want to keep something forever, you gotta make backups
Just screenshot your tabs. 😇
I don’t understand people who use a million tabs. Most I’ll have is like ten. And that’s if I’m deep in a problem in a project. I hate clutter
There are some judgmental assholes here. Worse than the political communities.