What, and risk not having it in your history 4 months later when you think "oh man that one video was super educational and would be very enlightening right now"?
Hoard stuff that's really interesting that I'll get to eventually probably.
Occasionally sift through the tabs to discard outdated stuff.
(optional) Actually get to some of those things I'd get to eventually.
4 has happened too often for me to discard the system. Tabs are temporary bookmarks so my real bookmark folder doesn't get swamped with every interesting thing I see.
Add a step in between where you don't remember why you decided to left it open, and a final step where you're sure you had an open tab but you can't find it.
Tab groups are my best friend for the last part. I have a perpetual group for 'gift potentials', one for recipes, and one for a hobby of mine. Each group has between 5-20 tabs lol
I have Firefox delete everything besides container URLs, because I don’t want cookie and site data living on my computer. It would be a nice feature, but I’m not going to make a container for every website so they don’t sniff each others cookies like dogs sniff each others asses.
It depends on what you're doing. If I'm researching my family tree, I can easily have over a dozen temporary tabs open while I check if someone is actually related to me.
My family is awkward though, they've got names like Thomas Thomas, and named their kids after their siblings >.<
It’s 2025, is there even a browser that doesn’t reopen your tabs by default? Who are the criminals building those?
Keeping a zillion tabs open is a resource strain on classic computers. If people are up for it, they could explore saving tabs to stuff like task apps or bookmark services.
Honestly the Edge collections feature is fantastic for this, but it's hidden in a sub menu so it feels like they don't want people to use it.
They're like a hybrid bookmark and note taking feature, add a group, name it, add tabs to it, add notes to it, reorder it all, etc. Only thing it's missing is a way to turn a tab group or window into a collection and back again, it's a manual process currently (add/remote a tab at a time)
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individual@toast.ooo · 92 pts · 315d
ywuduyu@piefed.social · 36 pts · 315d
I tried this and now there is a fucking ancient library in my room. Thanks for that.
individual@toast.ooo · 7 pts · 314d
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 314d
Ctrl+Shift+n for entire Windows, not just tabs.
blazeknave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d
Ummm... Isn't that the batin hotkey?
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d
came to post this, beat me to it
mr_satan@lemmy.zip · 53 pts · 315d
ctrl + shift + t
Honzai@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 314d
Ctrl + shift + n brings back the whole window instead of just one tab (tested in Firefox)
thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 314d
If you close a whole window at once, Ctrl+shift+T brings back all at the same time
On chrome, Ctrl+shift+N opens an incognito window
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
hey that's what i closed
mr_satan@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 314d
There are also recently closed tabs and recently closed windows in history
individual@toast.ooo · 2 pts · 314d
Denalduh@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 314d
Ctrl + t will do one tab at a time, but adding shift into the mix brings them all back.
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 314d
No, Ctrl-T is a new tab, Ctrl-Shift-T is restore closed tab or window. It's on this page.
individual@toast.ooo · 2 pts · 314d
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 39 pts · 315d
What browser doesn't have restore previous session? I'd like to avoid that one.
teegus@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 315d
Maybe they were looking at some cultural content in incognito mode
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 315d
What, and risk not having it in your history 4 months later when you think "oh man that one video was super educational and would be very enlightening right now"?
spamspeicher@feddit.org · 5 pts · 314d
For that we have yt-dlp for secure, offline copies on the disk. My po... eh, potentially very important video collection is growing day by day.
Prox@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 314d
Tweet is from 2020.
FishFace@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
Session restore has been reliable since like 2010 or longer
404@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 315d
I can't be the only one?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 315d
Bookmark anything really important
Hoard stuff that's really interesting that I'll get to eventually probably.
Occasionally sift through the tabs to discard outdated stuff.
(optional) Actually get to some of those things I'd get to eventually.
4 has happened too often for me to discard the system. Tabs are temporary bookmarks so my real bookmark folder doesn't get swamped with every interesting thing I see.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 10 pts · 315d
Add a step in between where you don't remember why you decided to left it open, and a final step where you're sure you had an open tab but you can't find it.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
Tab groups are my best friend for the last part. I have a perpetual group for 'gift potentials', one for recipes, and one for a hobby of mine. Each group has between 5-20 tabs lol
taaz@biglemmowski.win · 4 pts · 315d
bookmark folders
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 315d
LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 314d
This is me.
I have Firefox delete everything besides container URLs, because I don’t want cookie and site data living on my computer. It would be a nice feature, but I’m not going to make a container for every website so they don’t sniff each others cookies like dogs sniff each others asses.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 314d
It depends on what you're doing. If I'm researching my family tree, I can easily have over a dozen temporary tabs open while I check if someone is actually related to me.
My family is awkward though, they've got names like Thomas Thomas, and named their kids after their siblings >.<
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 315d
Im the same
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 315d
This guy is going to be so surprised when he hears about the browser history.
Blubber28@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 315d
Or bookmarks
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 13 pts · 315d
Or the "restore session" option.
shneancy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
or ctrl +shift +t
(it reopens the last closed tab or window, can be spammed)
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 314d
yeah but those tabs have been open for months, they're so far back in my history and I don't even know what was in there
fading_person@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 314d
There are extensions to save the current session as bookmarks.
Personally, I find that too many tabs ooen for a long time makes me feel uneasy and gives me some anxiety.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 314d
I have my browsers set up to wipe themselves clean on exit.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 314d
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 315d
20? Is that a significant number? I feel like I could memorize 20 urls. 400-500 would be a realistic number. What is this, the 90s?
Glifted@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
I too am a tab hoarder
batman0730@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
It’s not, any developer has 10-20 tabs open at all times, it’s nothing.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 314d
Per jira ticket
Killer57@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 314d
Laughs nervously
donalonzo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 314d
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d
What happens when your power goes out?
Killer57@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 307d
Luckily Firefox is really good at recovering all windows.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 315d
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 315d
I remember double digits fondly.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 315d
Grouped tabs restore the illusion.
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 314d
saigot@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 314d
Every modern browser will snooze your tabs automatically, making them take practically no resources.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 315d
My daughter has the same mental problem. You should hear her when I recommend closing a few tabs when she calls me for "my computer is so slow!".
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 315d
In firefox there's an extension that suspends tabs that haven't been active for a while. I guess that chrome has something similar.
In firefox as well, the vertical tab organizer is very helpful for people that use tabs as informal bookmarks.
anguo@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 314d
Firefox does that natively now, AFAIK. Also, a popular Chrome extension that did the same changed hands and turned to malware a while back, just FYI.
hunkyburrito@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 314d
I think the native version only unloads when the device is low on memory whereas the extension just does it all the time.
FishFace@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 314d
Those are rookie numbers
affiliate@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 314d
i got 64gb ram so that i never had to close a tab again
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
I got 4 monitors so that I'd never have to stop having a tab on top again. 64 gb to keep them running.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 314d
Should've done that, I foolishly though 32 GB would be 'enough'.
Johandea@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 315d
Ctrl + shift + n is your friend!
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 315d
Honestly the Edge collections feature is fantastic for this, but it's hidden in a sub menu so it feels like they don't want people to use it.
They're like a hybrid bookmark and note taking feature, add a group, name it, add tabs to it, add notes to it, reorder it all, etc. Only thing it's missing is a way to turn a tab group or window into a collection and back again, it's a manual process currently (add/remote a tab at a time)
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d
I use edge for work, and collections are sooo handy for keeping certain projects straight.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
Let It Burn!
[Verse 1] Oh, the scrolls inside were brighter, Than a thousand suns together, But the torches came to turn, Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.
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[Chorus] It doesn’t show signs of stopping, The papyrus ash is dropping, And since wisdom won’t return, Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.
[Bridge] When we finally say goodbye, How we’ll miss all that Plato and Pi! But if history’s meant to die, Then we’ll watch the embers fly.
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[Outro] No Aristotle’s learning, Just the glow of pages burning, And as the ages turn, Let it burn… let it burn… let it burn.