• Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Firefox has a plugin, sidebery, that will take snapshots of your tabs at a cadence you set. This lets you open tabs from prior sessions. I had a job where pretty much everything was browser based, and I would not have survived without it. It also has a ton of other features that I regularly used

              • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                The side tabs function can be switched off on sidebery, but if all you want is something tracking your tabs, that one probably makes more sense

                • Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  Yeah, thought I didn’t knew it could be took off. Maybe that was just an older version or I simply overlooked it. Other features of Sideberry actually attract me!

          • farfalla@jlai.luEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            And that is so cruel. It doesn’t forgive (well, it does, but only once)

  • gressen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I think in both FF and Chrome you can just go to menu, history and then recently closed windows.

    • lawks@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Ctrl + Shift + N in Firefoxen will reopen an entire closed window. Handy if you have multiple windows open but only closed one. Related to Ctrl + N for a new window.

        • lawks@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Is it different in Chromium based browsers? I just tested by closing a window with a few tabs, and T only brought back a tab from the remaining window, not the window I’d just closed.

  • programmerlexi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    4 days ago

    Hence why I have session restore enabled.

    So I can have my 1519 tabs back.

    Like any normal person.

    …this is what normal people do… right?

    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      4 days ago

      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. :)

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      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”.

      • farfalla@jlai.luEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Tree Style Tab (or any of the other very good extensions doing the same) is the ultimate to organize your tabs.

        And then you can answer to all these “But why ? Bookmarks are the only good way !” with : Why manually sort things in bookmarks when it can sort itself automagically and if it’s not adequate, it’s just drag and drop it on the view I already have at the side of my browser ?

      • programmerlexi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I use Zen Browser, so all windows have the same tabs (unless it’s a private window, but those don’t get saved). But for any other browser that doesn’t do this, tab groups are a good idea, when having that many tabs open.

    • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Mobile has at least 2000 tabs. (Tell Firefox to open on a new tab. Also told Firefox to not delete old tabs. About 2 years at least)

      Trying to send to desktop to sort out. Crashes (both mobile and desktop) at around 1300 tabs too.

  • Sasquatch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Once I’m around 20 I start to feel overwhelmed and just close them all, and start again. Selective pruning takes too much effort. I’ll find what I was looking for again

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    For Firefox Ctrl, Shift + D, it bookmarks all of your open tabs in a new folder.

    Do it every week? Wish I could know how to make it do itself everyday.

  • europeancricket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    I can fill the tab row and after that every tab decreases efficiency. If I can type where to go faster than I can find the old tab, what is the point.

    • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      4 days ago

      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.

      • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        4 days ago

        There’s no point to a thousand bookmarks. Learn to purge man. You said that like it was a requirement to have a thousand bookmarks. That’s not normal. That is so weird.

        • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          Because 100 tabs isnt also weird? And yes, i was exaggerating a bit. I purge every time i get a new computer. So once a decade or so.

          • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Yeah of course it is buddy, that’s why I’m in this thread advocating bookmarks. Just not you know psychotic numbers of them.

        • farfalla@jlai.luEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          Depends how you use bookmarks, it can be an archive of everything you want to be able to find again (and still be very usable for websites you need to go everydays)

        • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Well, im not super happy with either method. I use bookmarks more often. But skimming thro 20 tabs (mouse wheel flipping thro the pages) is easier for those 20 tabs then my dozen or so bookmark categories with 50 plus websites each…

          I assume neuralink solves both of those problems?

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Same. Though there is an exception if I’m focused on a task or figuring out a particular problem. Then my number of tabs can spike to dozens. They all get closed immediately as soon as I finish or my flow is broken though.

  • piedonut@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    I never understood why people would keep so many tabs open. Is it a chrome habit? Like you let your browser keep them open because it’s the default setting? You can search history. I feel dirty if I have more than 20 open, and it means I was productive.

    • Soleos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      It’s a FOMO hoarding thing or ADHD thing. People place great value on their passing interests. They see something like “oh that would be good to read/watch” and the tab structure becomes a kind of combined to-do and reminder list. Closing the tab feels like giving up, forgetting, or losing an opportunity. If the tab is still there, there’s still an opportunity. Bookmarks don’t work because it’s out of sight/out of mind.

      This isn’t an argument for keeping so many tabs. It’s an explanation. People will still feel the weight of so many things on their list and they really should just let them go. They’ll feel lighter and they won’t miss it (except for when they do) 👀