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Ctrl, Shift + T
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?
Seems totally normal to me. Yep.
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”.
Actually Firefox has native groups, I love them. Also it has containers.
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 ?
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.
55 tabs, that’s cute.
1337
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.
I think in both FF and Chrome you can just go to menu, history and then recently closed windows.
Control + Shift + T (reopen closed tab)
Usually that opens the whole window, or just press that 55+ times
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.
Did I get it backwards… (Oops)
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.
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.
My life just lost all its risk.
Y’all, bookmarks exist.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah of course it is buddy, that’s why I’m in this thread advocating bookmarks. Just not you know psychotic numbers of them.
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)
Tags ! Bookmark tags are so underestimated !
But then how do you search through all your tabs? Isn’t it the same effort?
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?
I feel crowded when I have 5 tabs open.
Just last week I closed over a thousand tabs, I regularly close over 700.
:(
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.
History->restore recently closed
Alexandria gets rebuilt
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
Unless it was a private browsing session and now you can’t find that one video again.
I still remember the opening song…
I’ll never understand why so many people keep so many tabs open, When I find something worthy of revisit I just bookmark the website, or I just visit and close the tab when I’m done.
Could someone explain this to me? is it a generational thing (I grew up in the 90s)?
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.
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).
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.
Also, bookmarks exist for exactly this reason
Wouldn’t be able to handle it.
My browser clears everything every time I close it. Like sessions, logins, history, cookies, …
If I need it I will be able to find it again. Or I create a bookmark. That is what you’re supposed to do anyway.
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.
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) 👀
Too bad the Ancients didn’t know about right-click “Reopen burned library”
