i appreciate ff can do this and all, but isnt this usecase covered by you know, the browser history?
Bookmarks
I find bookmarks simply useless compared to tabs. Massive cognitive burden to sort and categorize. Also can’t search the content text.
I prefer textfiles full of urls more than bookmarks
I find bookmarks simply useless compared to tabs. Massive cognitive burden to sort and categorize. Also can’t search the content text.
I prefer textfiles full of urls more than bookmarks
Of bookmarks, I always have like 20 tabs max open at once, I feel alone.
Don’t be, I normally have no more than 3, no more than 7 when actively multitasking
Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there’s no way to change this or to export the data.
This says its not time limited, but firefox will start purging once it starts effecting performance:
Also history search is terrible
Yeah, if I’m trying history search, I know I’ve already lost.
Mine has history going back to Nov 2022 (though I’m not entirely sure why it stops there).
Just bookmark it, jeez…
You can change how often it deletes history items, I’m sure I’ve done that before
I didn’t know, that sucks so much.
Though, someone made a post on superuser and a reply said that you can back up the database, so at least something is salvageableYeah but if you import a backed up db wouldn’t the old entries just get deleted?
They said you can merge without conflicts:
Making a backup every 60 days seems to be sufficient to keep all history. sqlite doesn’t reuse old ids (I think?) so merging the backups shouldn’t be too hard.
But they haven’t tested it, also I wonder if once you do that successfully, Firefox will just delete all the extra records at the next startup, so idk
The entries would still be datestamped and as firefox clears up the history the older ones would be deleted.
In my other comment I linked something that said firefox just starts tidying up as performance starts to degrade, rather than a fixed limit of history entries.
Therefore, if your history is more or less full, and you just import a heap more history, firefox is just going to “tidy up” everything you just imported surely.
I have three open and feel like its a bit much.
I have three pinned tabs, and about 10 more important ones. Here’s what I generally have open:
Pinned @ work:
- Jira
- Okta
- Postman (I’m a BE dev)
“Essential” tabs at work:
- about 5 main Github repos (we have over a dozen, but I mostly stick to those)
- a couple Confluence pages
- a couple Google Docs
- QA test run page
Pinned at home:
- wavemaker - creative writing, and I always forget the hostname
“Essential” tabs at home:
- my gitlab
- a couple game wikis
- FOSS projects in development I depend on
I can get to pretty much everything else quickly with DDG bangs or memory.
So at work, a “clean” browser is mostly filled with tabs, and at home it’s about half filled with tabs. I keep the essential ones on the far left, so “close to right” generally works well.
Same How do people navigate all those tabs? Or do they always open a new one? It’s SO much clutter
Yeah same. Discord, gmail and whatsapp web, plus whichever ones I’m actively using. And those will be closed by end of day at the very latest.
Maybe it’s just my ADHD, but I can’t even imagine managing that many tabs.
In my workflow, I start a project, then keep opening new tabs as I need to look things up, frequently moving tabs between multiple browsers spanning my 32" monitor. So long as I’m working on that problem, I just keep opening new tabs.
Then, when I’ve finally squared away the section of the project I was working on, I usually just close the browser entirely and start fresh.
Needing to manually sift through the 80+ tabs I chaotically opened in the last hour or so to figure out what’s worth keeping? Hell no. That’s what browser history is for. It’s Etch-a-Sketch time! Shake it clean and start fresh.
You want the session addon. Also profile switcher. My project topic usually span 500-1000 tabs each and I often have 15-30 projects going in a single session. Can’t wait until I can use open source LLM to ask questions about all the content of all my tavs.
I feel the exact same
Seeing colleagues crawl through 10 different tabs every time they want to check a documentation is quite a bit frustrating
Seems like your ADHD manifests in a different way than some others. I have no less than 90 tabs open across three monitors and damnit I nEeD all of them!
I typically have 50-200 browser tabs open, but I also usually have 5+ browser windows running. So, like, when I’m building something, I’ll have the thing I’m building and all its parts spread across two windows, and a third window with all my reference materials. Then I can cleanly kill them all when I’m done.
I don’t really know what I’d keep from those when that workflow is done. The thing is built, so I don’t need any of it anymore.
If I want to keep a site longer than a day I bookmark it. I have no clue how anyone can cope with this many tabs, it’s like an email backlog but for your browser.
I wonder if they were using FF back when they had the Panorama feature back in the day. That many tabs seems like it would be great for organizing everything. It is almost hilarious to think that FF was so far ahead of the game that it just didn’t make sense. Now all the other major browsers are adding some kind of tab groups feature.
The way FF did it was cool and was like having virtual desktops but groups of tabs. Aside from proper vertical tabs that keeps theme and doesn’t require hacking settings to get rid of the horizontal row (Edge and Brave are good examples as their hover to expand titles and collapse when using the pages are smooth). Bringing back grouping tabs like Panorama had them would be really cool to have again.
Though I would love to see a blend of nice vertical tabs and groups like what I see in screenshots of browsers like Arc. Very different looking but in a good way. If FF could make their own spin of that UI work with both vertical and horizontal tabs. It would be dope af.
In other news…
My grandma doesn’t understand what tabs are and never closes them either.
This must be her “superpower base”
I have no idea why anyone would do that, but for the bookmark collectors, checkout “404 bookmarks” which detects websites that are down.
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Or at least to automatically make the archive!
A few years ago I tried to use ArchiveBox for this purpose, but it had problems, and development didn’t happen much since then.
Then recently I have found Linkwarden. That also seems to be a tackled together solution, like the installation instructions and not just unclear but also incorrect, and the real steps are weird…
Bit it seems to work so far. It can’t handle multiple versions of a website nicely, but at least you can submit the same site multiple times, with some minimum time limit.
Haven’t figured out yet how to easily forward links to it from my phone, though.No I mean if a link is dead, auto change the bookmark to archive.org
For whatever reason they have every website possible. I have no idea how they do that.
Like the Neil Peart of internet surfing!
I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs… How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I’ve just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like I’m the master of the internet.
With Quick Tabs Ported, you don’t need to look for where tabs are; just invoke the extension and type any part of its name to find and jump to it. It’s been life-changing for me, personally (but yeah, I don’t keep anywhere near this number of tabs, still, haha).
I wish there was an option to keep certain integral tabs open fully… Annoying when I need to copy some code and it relaunches
Doesn’t pinning essentially do that? I do it for Jira and switching to it is usually fast.
Pinning keeps them open
And here am I, getting twitchy the moment the tab size shrinks. I can’t imagine having so many tabs open.
It’s bad enough my brain already does that by itself
This makes me feel good about my 300+ open tabs😅
God, I think I had 500 open on my old phone alone… Though I usually don’t pass 50 on desktop, because they’re easier to manage and harder to bury or forget about
534 tabs for me currently on FF Android. A good part of it is fanfiction, the ones I’ve not read or chosen not to bookmark yet.
I have like 20 on my phone, usually 100-200 on my desktop, so the reverse. Since tabs are harder to manage on my phone, I tend to clean them up a lot more often.
…Meanwhile im over here clear all on close
hell
Of course I know him, he’s me.
