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.
Of course the tabs would just come back up next time they open the browser window again. Can't risk losing those precious tabs, there might be an important one among them.
Signed, a tab hoarder.
As a previous tab hoarder, excessive use of bookmarks is the answer. Organized is more useful, but even a single bookmark folder for all of your "I'll need this later" tabs will do wonders for you, and being a bookmark hoarder is so much more functional than being a tab hoarder. You can actual reset your browser every once in a while.
But then I'll have to take an explicit action to keep my tab! I'd much rather have no action required to save that tab that I'm likely to never visit again.
McDonalds Power User Keeps 7,400+ drive through bags in back seat for 2 years!
The first time this meme has truly resonated with my soul.
What an idiot, thats why I have 7,400 bookmarks that I never intend to sort.
Once you realize that you don’t sort or ever even revisit them, you can start using the browsing history to serve the same purpose.
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Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Like the Neil Peart of internet surfing!
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.
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?
Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there's no way to change this or to export the data.
This says its not time limited, but firefox will start purging once it starts effecting performance:
Of bookmarks, I always have like 20 tabs max open at once, I feel alone.
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.
Seems like your ADHD manifests in a different way than some others. I have no less than 90 tabs open across three monitors and damnit I nEeD all of them!
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.
Not heard of sidebery, but totally relate as a Tree Style Tabs user. That and multi account containers means I regularly have a couple hundred tabs per window...
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.
I'm not sure if it fixes your problem, but it fixed mine.
Pin the tab.
In my case, Whatsapp web didn't get loaded when I opened firefox, so notifications didn't reach me unless I opened the tab at least once.
If the tab is pinned, however, it will load when you open firefox, I'm unsure if the tab stays loaded.
TIL my dad is a power user with his ":D" tabs in Chrome on Android /s
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
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.
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
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 dunno if I should be honored or terrified to know such people walk amongst us mortals.
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 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 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
~~Hoarders~~ Household power users
So anyone can be a power user if they never close their tabs?
Hazel sounds like my soulmate. I have a good 1500+ tabs open on any given moment
May I ask you what you actually need that many tabs for? I do research for my work but I usually start closing stuff at 50ish tabs lates
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