Programmer Humor

Bookmarking doesn't work for me, too limited, and starts a horrible trend of duplicating them. So they are useless for tab history managment. Also, the linear tab history is not very useful... same problem, the entries get duped eventually. I often don't want to restore the tabs from the last day whatever, but restore an specific set of tabs. Some times even multiple sets, and switch between these.

I really would like an Firefox feature, where the tabs would be part of a "tab history tree". Opening a link in a tab would add it as a "sub-tab" of the parent tab. In history.

So when a doing a search or refining one many times, this would end-up linking all the opened tabs to the originating tab. A new tree of tabs could be started by just opening an empty tab, and a "tab organizer UI" should allow to move/group that into an existing tab tree if needed. (The tab-bar UI doesn't need to visualize the tree-of-tabs. The tabs would be just auto-organized this way in the history)

I think this would allow to clear all of the currently open tabs in any window, but the tabs could still be neatly restored from the history on per-tree basis in any window. Restoring a tab-tree would allow to continue making refinements to it, or clone it. Currently multi-window tab restoring in FF is kinda borked, and only the last window's open tabs are restored automatically.

/end-of-wordsoup-for-today.

I once closed 9k tabs on the phone. I swear I felt a mild earthquake and power went off in the whole building. Eye of google appeared before me with hissy “I see you”

There is a rule about having more than 34 tabs. Search Firefox rule 34 and you can see what happens.

jesus 20 is already way too much

Guess I need rehab.

Tree style tabs is my enabler 😖

You mean 420

Once you hit 99+ in Firefox on mobile it changes to ∞

42 is supposed to be the exaggeration meme???

Bro my mobile browser has so many tabs open it stopped giving me a number and gives me a smiley face instead. It's like 150.

Only 42?

I've had about 1000+ tabs open before, but I've gotten better at keeping them under control. It's very normal for me to hit a couple hundred, once in a while, though, before I go through them all and weed out the ones I'm done with. Right now I only have 24, but 19 of them are my pinned tabs that are used all the time.

I have 57 open right now

30 from it is stackoverflow, 10 are github, and 2 e926 pages.

The sense of loss when you can't get them back for some reason. I swear I've had my career set back by losing my tabs. It's basically my working memory.

Bookmarks exist for this reason, man