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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

This instance demonstrates Firefox’s memory management capabilities, which put unused tabs to sleep to save memory via Tab Unloading. Mozilla released this feature with Firefox 93 in October 2021

This has been a thing since at least 2012.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

And there's literally dedicated extensions to tracking open tabs for you

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