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>A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever." So they are not that different from bookmarks then?
My 100+ tabs consuming 12GB of RAM says otherwise...
Basically I want to be able to turn a window full of tabs into some kind of document, where I can add metadata about the window and tabs, organized into sections, and which creates an archive of each page while maintaining the option of reloading the latest version if it still happens to exist.
This would also involve a better way to select a bunch of tabs at once and move them to the window they belong on.
If anyone knows of something which works this way, I'd love to hear about it.
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How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?
I go to the same set of pages all the time, and the browser has it in the search history. So usually only have to type a few characters to navigate to it. Do people often seek out obscure pages without entering from a more common context? e.g. hackernews to any article link
Maybe this could be a clue as to what's happening: What if other people have different use cases and needs?
Even between work and personal browsing I use my browsers quite differently. At work, tabs are more of a to-do list (things I need to review/sign off etc.); for personal, tabs are a largely a reading list.
I'd never just remember all things people want me to take a look at and type them in the search history, so tabs solve that nicely for me.
Lol, I have 15000+ tabs across 13 windows.
There are lots of browser extensions like onetab that allow you to keep as many tabs as you want without having to navigate a mess.
My tabs fall into the following categories:
- unfinished/long running projects/topics/research: for these I use a version of the Tabs Aside! extension that I've modified, which converts them to bookmarks.
- tabs I will want to look at someday and further categorize and/or take action: for these I implemented a babashka script that when I click on an URL it fetches the page, extracts the title and displays it and asks me if I want to open it now, or save it for later in an org-file. This doesn't work, unfortunately, for URLs that I open from another FF page. For these, my long term plan involves archiving the text and doing RAG on them, as they relate to my long term interests/projects/curiosities.
- tabs I need for the actively running projects/tasks
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How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?
Bookmarks. Reading lists. Notes.
Frequently, the time it takes me to action whatever I have a tab open for takes as long as adding it to, reloading it from, and marking it off of a to-do list.
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They just stay open. Going back and deciding which ones to close is a hassle.
Why not one than 72h = auto close? Maybe add to reading list, close the tab and let it sit in there
If I really wanted to keep a record of all the sites I've been to for historic reasons like this person there are far easier/better ways to do that. I'd even set it up to download a local copy of the sites I visit so that they'd be there even if the sites went offline. I have 298 tabs across 8 windows open right now and I can already tell firefox is about to crash at any moment. I go to about:memory and mash the butt…
>A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever." So they are not that different from bookmarks then?
My 100+ tabs consuming 12GB of RAM says otherwise...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They just stay open. Going back and deciding which ones to close is a hassle.
Why not one than 72h = auto close? Maybe add to reading list, close the tab and let it sit in there
I'm assuming you are someone who closes tabs sometimes. I am too. What you have to accept is that we are the weird ones. A browser is a tool and just opening new tabs for everything is the easiest way to use it. There is very little downside, because there is no need to ever touch an old tab if you can just open a new one. There is no limit on how many you can have open other than what your machine can handle, and even if the browser crashes, nothing is really lost, because you just... open a new tab.
Just accept it. It's hard, seeing a million tabs open really bugs me too, but you're not going to change anyone's mind on the subject.