I'm a sysadmin and need to troubleshoot a lot of different services. I use firefox with tab groups (the best thing since browser-sliced bread). I will have one group open for my AWS pages, for example, which will have separate tabs for ec2 instances (and maybe) ec2 volumes, ec2 snapshots, memcache, database 1, database 2, instances in another region, pricing page, monitoring, access management, so on and so forth. All separate tabs, because it takes 5-10s to load a new page in the AWS console, and then you also need to subnavigate that page. Troubleshooting will open up new tabs in-between those tabs. Throw those all in one group. Then, when I need to "do AWS", I switch to that group.

So why bother closing a tab when I can just switch out of the group when I'm doing something else? Another group does mail and google docs, another group does 'Atlassian stuff' (ticketing + wiki), another does build and CI, so on and so forth.

The only problem with this approach is memory consumption, because the modern web developer includes approximately 3/5ths of the entire internet on every page, and I 'only' have 8GB on my machine (non-expandable). Performance is fine for a while, but eventually (a couple of weeks) it starts to grind. Restarting FF at this point doesn't autoload the tabs, so it gives you a fresh slate, effectively.

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