And whats the point of a 1000 plus bookmark list? You save 50 sites at a time, you will need duckduckgo to search your own bookmarks.

Yes, i use folders for my bookmarks. But sometimes i dont know what the fuck folder i put that bookmark in.

Suffering from a something of riches, I guess.

Then it’s just a mess of bookmarks instead of tabs. And maybe I was in the middle of doing something and decided that I didn’t want to do it anymore right then but would eventually return to it, which could involve multiple tabs together.

But I did get an addon to help save and manage my tabs after an instance of closing my main window while having another browser window open (sometimes it’s nice to pull a tab out to a seperate window so you can see two tabs at once), which would lose the full set of tabs in FF (other than the single one in the other window).

When the browser restarts, it doesn’t automatically load all of those tabs until you click over to them (at least by default, I think there is a setting for it if you’d rather it did).

Ah, that is because you seem to have only two tiers of tab value, worth revisiting and not. There is a middle tier of “to be considered for evaluation when I have time”. THAT is what all those extra tabs are for :) The crux of course is that there is rarely time to fully look at all those tabs, so they accumulate. As you can tell, I frequently suffered from this situation. My solution was to use an RSS reader so I could just leave the potential tab unread and save all the memory (that Sam Altman is currently salivating for).

Its hoarding behavior. At least it only affects that person. Probably a sign of poor mental health, if someone can’t let go of old tabs. Maybe some angry tab collector will come set me straight though.

1337

Just last week I closed over a thousand tabs, I regularly close over 700.

Help. I can’t find the ctrl button on my phone.

The day I learned this changed my life, and I love teaching it to coworkers and friends, it lights up their brains.

Someone also needs to teach the OP to use CTRL+H.

I suggest a tab grouping addon because there are scenarios where you can still lose your tabs with just session restore (eg if you open a new browser window, that often gets treated as a different session and it will only save the one closed last, so if you close the big tab one first and then close a single tab, you might find it only has that single tab saved when you load it up again).

I use Simple Tab Groups, which is set up to hide tabs from other groups until I switch to them, so it doesn’t depend on what is going on in the active session (well, kinda, FF does provide a lot of the infra, like the loaded tabs from inactive groups are still loaded), but uses its own data to save/restore tabs that isn’t just “save a flat list of tabs when window is closed”.

Many years ago I once had almost 10 000 tabs open at some point. Today I only have a few hundred tabs open like an average person. :)

Seems totally normal to me. Yep.

Why not just use bookmarks

You can change the setting in Firefox to purge everything when you close it, so if you end up with like 5 tabs you can just close it and open it again and its brand new fresh and clean