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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This says more about the user with 7,000 opened tabs than anything about firefox

[–] DxK@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah there's no practical way to manage thousands of browser tabs in your workflow, that's just digital hoarding.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish we could resurrect his session just to see how many tabs were duplicates.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or how much porn they were looking at

[–] amlor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

7470 tabs of porn, duh

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you had a system that could ... the average mind isn't able to process and remember that many items of data ... there's a reason why they came up with seven digit phone numbers decades ago ... most people are capable of recalling on average about seven numbers in a sequence ... anything beyond that takes more training ... anything beyond about a hundred things takes years of memory training ... and anything beyond a thousand things is a one a million freak ability combined with training.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

O one one eight nine nine nine, eight eight one nine nine, nine one one nine seven two five.... three!

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a developer, this use case is not even an edge case, it's a fringe use case.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

It's more a psychological case

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everything in my bookmarks is to never be opened again because I just forget about it.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the advantage of bookmarks, yes.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Or session loss.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tabs are for sites you're currently browsing, not for archival.
There's bookmarks for that.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox handles those poorly heads up. If I search "random topic" and all my related bookmarks populate I cannot open multiples. I cant select multiples to move. Their app sucks.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re being downvoted because anything critical of all mighty firefox gets downvoted on lemmy.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

And apparently anything that mentions that anything critical of Firefox gets downvoted on Lemmy, gets downvoted on Lemmy.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It wasn't over 9000, looks like the user has to start over again.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the Firefox appdata, there are session backup files. You can restore tabs by just renaming a few files. Don't ask me how I know.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

They did do that, this article just sucks

[–] BoneALisa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are extensions for this sort of thing... i have probably 40 or 50 tabs stored in groups, but i use a tab group extension to allow me to store tabs based on context, and switch between them easily. Ive got my normal tabs, my shopping tabs, tabs for learning stuff for blender, programming tabs, all grouped off so i normally only ever have 10ish tabs open at a time.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I thought my friend having 100+ open was bad.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

While this might seem like a horror story for those who value their browsing tabs and history (and for systems with Chrome browsers), Hazel retrieved those tabs-of-treasure thanks to the X community explaining how to restore an old Firefox browsing session from the profiles cache.

Good news for her. But I must say that's not a healthy way to use a web browser. Even on my phone at about 50 Firefox tabs I will clear them all. If I was that crazy I would have 10 backup copies of the profiles cache file so I'd never lose it.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean if it retained them for 2 years, that's pretty amazing on its own.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

They still have their history, that's functionality better than having over 7k tabs open.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

...and nothing of value was lost...

[–] Dreizehn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rookie numbers.

[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And I felt bad having a tab counter set on ":)"

[–] Lightborne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At first I misread it as "Firefox loser uses ...."

quickly realized that my misread also works.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The article makes me think the user would have some sort of OCD about tabs.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What a fucking idiot

[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Lmao just don't be doing that wth

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As ridiculous as this story is, Firefox does kill my tabs way too often. At least on my PCs.

[–] padjakkels@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Its the user,not firefox.