I'm thinking the best fix here may be to see a psychiatrist, get a diagnosis, and some medication. Then close the tabs.
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What is the DSM diagnosis for more than 100 open tabs ?
IDK, I am not a psychiatrist, I suggest you talk to one though. Could be life changing.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab is Ctrl+Tab in reverse order.
Or you can Ctrl+W to close your tab and it should pop back to the last one.
Should be noted that Ctrl+[Shift+]Tab behaves as you describe by default, but there's a checkbox in the settings to make it go through tabs left-to-right, so it's possible OP changed that behaviour...
Alt-F4
I tried, it said
So, I said no
Sorry, I'll be honest, I find your browsing methods offensive, I think 2185 tab is ridiculous and you should be shutting that shit down, looking at my wife's phone with 150 tabs makes me anxious and I avoid it .. but then it also occurs to me that you should be doing you.
I don't know of a keyboard shortcut that could find your previous tab, but you were on the tab recently, did you refresh it? could it be in your recent history? This makes me vomit in my mouth a bit .. but could you open yet another tab with the same page from your browser history?
Alternatively if your scroll position on the tab matters, could you use the down arrow to the right of the infinite accordion of tabs at the top of your window and use the "Search Tabs" option to find the tab using the name of the site from your search history?
I see from your other post that you already found it, but also have 100s of tabs with the same name, this is wild. I just can't even grasp why you would want this for yourself. Good luck.
I came here directly after reading a post about the important of rage bait awareness... this is fucking hilarious
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Bruh WTF, don't do that :/
Based on your other comments here, you should probably start organizing your tabs before your browser simply crashes.
When the tab count goes over 5000, I dump alll of them in a bookmark folder and start all over again.
That's just digital hoarding, especially if you never revisit those bookmark folders.
You can search the text inside bookmarks so they're basically useless. They're just the URL and page title, useless. I mean, better than nothing, but it's impossible to find anything in there or make any sense of it, makind sense of folder with 10k+ bookmarks in them
There are web clipping tools - even open source ones - to help you with stuff like this.
There's an option in the settings to make Ctrl+Tab cycle by last used tabs instead of the order they appear in in the tab bar. I have that turned off, so can't tell you 100% whether it does what you want...
Otherwise of course if you still know the name of the tab, just type whatever you can remember into the address bar, that is how I find tabs usually.
I can't use ctrl+tab, first because it will wake up every tab that I sequentially go through. And second, because that I will have to go through hundreds of tabs this way.
Actually, I tried and this is what it looks like this, so it seems ctrl+tab no longer cycles through tabs ?
My tab wasn't in this list
I found my tab, the title didn't help, it only had the name of the website, of which I have hundreds of tabs open, so I couldn't find it. I ended up using "tab manager plus" and finding which tabs in the list weren't discarded tabs. Still very tedious.
I notice this happens often. When ever I open a tab from the taskbar, then I can't find my way back to the tab I was on, since they open at the very end on the tab list.
It's weird, there doesn't seem to be a "go to previous tab" keyboard binding !?
The person you're replying to solved your problem. Read what they wrote and stop freaking out.
Ctrl+w will go to the previous tab
Have you tried saving pages you return to often as bookmarks instead?
Yes, even with an addon like "single hmlt file" it become a huge managerial chose to keep, there is no way to search any of it, it's also a very manual process to do.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/851489
Someone else had a similar or same question too. This is the discussion on Mozilla support on it.
That said, 2185? Don't be miserly, come on, hit that sweet 2200 already
i think at that point the better solution is to have less tabs open
guys help i put the candle i just bought in the wrong pile and now i can't find it. please don't tell me i have to look at the candles to find the one i'm looking for
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First off, wow... How do you have 2185 tabs open and 21 windows? That's impressive and infuriating.
Utilize tab groups. Organize a bit.
What possible purpose could you have for that many tabs?
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OP might be an AI scraping tool that gained sentience. Bro needs to read billions of web pages.
If you're not against them, you could try vertical tabs with the Sidebery extension. It has a shortcut (not bound by default) to flip between the pervious tab and current tab.
Thanks I'll check it out. I had sidebery install but never really used it and didn't think of re-installing on my latest OS wipe.
it might not help if you don't know the name of it but there's also a list all tabs button in the toolbar which lets you search and filter tabs.
Holy crap. Use the Tab Stash extension. Separate tabs into windows and stash the entire window. It will save them all to a group or collection that you can name, and you can go back and reopen them when needed.
Seriously, I can't imagine how outdated your browser is if you never close it, not to mention the last time you restarted your computer. You're one power failure away from chaos.
If you also get the xBrowserSync extension, you can back up all your bookmarks and tabs so if your computer ever dies you can restore it to a new browser install.
I restart the browser often. seems to be the only reliable way to free up all the resources it uses and prevent crashes. That does update the browser, I'm on 104.0.4 so I get to enjoy stuff I didn't ask, changing and the occasional thing breaking. At some point I'll choose a version I like and freeze it in place and prevent it from updating entirely.
I also have an addon to merge all windows and another to order all tabs by their domain name.
Once in a while I'll dump everything into book marks (and never open them again, since bookmark are basically impossible to effectively search).
I tried "tab stash" and just ended up losing hundreds of "hidden" tabs, it didn't lighten organizational load, it was just something to manage on top of it all.
For browser sync, I still use firefox sync, the best I can say about it is that it works, however, there are no want to actually search the content in the sync database. So it's only for sharing tabs between devices and backup the tabs and bookmarks.
I commend your tab hoarding. I just want to know how much RAM you have to support that. I have 32 GB, Firefox won't load them until I click on them, and it still struggles at 100 tabs.
I have 64 gb I reboot daily or else the system becomes unusable.
Most tabs aren't loaded since it takes often many gigabytes to display simple text pages in 2025.
I have no way to know how many actually active tabs I have but it's not more than a few dozens and then firefox just starts deleting data from memory as if it could be obtained again later.
Contact your doctor and ask to be tested for ADHD because holy shit you have this or something akin. Let me guess, you also cycle through hobbies constantly and have 100 projects you're "working on" right?
Here's a bit of advice: if you can't even remember what all the tabs have in them or which is which or what's important(which you constantly allude to when talking about searching through them).....NONE OF IT IS. It's the easiest ADHD clutter cleanup method: if you can't even remember that something specific exists and it's just a giant generic pile, it's all junk. If it really mattered, you'd have already sorted it or remembered it. Now it's just hanging around as emotional baggage.
Dump all of it and if any of it actually happens to have been important, you'll find it again if you really need it. If you don't find it again, then you didn't need it in the first place. And start using something to actually take notes and sort this shit. 2000+ tabs is insanity if this isn't a troll.
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