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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session
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The article explains that she likes to look at tabs in the past as a reminder of something she was interested in.
It’s sort of a snapshot in time. I get it. But hell no I’m closing tabs.
Man if only firefox had some kinda feature that you could see your previous activity. Something akin to a history of what you did in the browser.
I get what you mean, but not that long ago wepages used to hijack your back button by forcing redirects to fill up the history, it is less common today, but endless scrolling sites love filling up your history.
"Look, just add in an option to re-enable spacebar heating."
https://xkcd.com/1172/
Meanwhile no one considers whatever happened to DenverCoder9
You can bookmark a whole window full of tabs all into a single bookmark folder. It's called "bookmark all tabs" or something like that. Then later you can open all of them again into a new window using a single button again.
I know the average person isn't tech savvy, but this loss is almost entirely on themself. If you have 7000 tabs open and it's important to you that they stay saved, then it's on you to simply ASK someone if keeping them open is an ok way to do it
Why do you need to “save” a tab? If you’re never going to look at it again what is the point?
I can understand someone who has 20-30 tabs. They’ll probably go back to at least one of them. But 7000???? There is nothing to save it’s an impossible rats nest with zero organization so the likelihood of reopening even one of those tabs is virtually zero. So in this case what’s the purposing of “saving” these tabs?
Sometimes you actually do go back to those saved tabs. There's no way to know ahead of time which tabs you're actually gonna go back to and which you won't, so it's perfectly reasonable to save groups of tabs if there was a topic you were researching or whatever. Just save the tabs into a new bookmark folder with a descriptive name so you can find it later.
But with that said, 7000 is way beyond including just the things a person might ever actually want to go back to later.
I... Just search the history. It's there for a reason
This is hoarder behaviour, so I wouldn’t expect it to make sense as a general statement
See my other comment reply above. I don't know how to get a direct link to a comment on lemmy
At that point, just use archivebox instead.
Self-hosted Archive.org? Neat
Or maybe her browser history
True, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
firefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it's not "saving" the page on exit
Yeah, I'm talking about archivebox, not necessarily Firefox alone.
I have 4 virtual desktops, usually each with their own Firefox instance. I still have less than 10 tabs open.
YOU DON'T NEED THAT MANY TABS
How do you deal with Firefox updates?
I type
yay