I agree that it should be easier to get a simple list, but I want to note that backing up the firefox tab data is one file, and it makes its own backup whenever you update.

Chrome on the other hand will deliberately reject and wipe your profile if you copy it to another computer.

Also "bookmark all tabs" serves roughly the same purpose as a dumb URL list for backup purposes, even if it's awkward to edit.

I do have a story like this for all the browsers, save one: Opera, from back when it had its own rendering engine. It's not that it never crashed, mind you - but, somehow, the tabs would always be back after. Makes me wonder just how much effort wend into the error shutdown code path to make sure everything is saved.

Found an Chrome extension that lets you do this!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabcopy/micdllihgo...

I just tried it out -- you click a button to copy the list of tabs. If you just want the URLs and not the page titles, choose the "Compact" option.

> Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

That's actually a nifty feature idea, but it seems like it could be easily abused with a little client-side JS for the sake of fingerprinting or analytics, unless it's treated similarly to chrome:// urls. You could probably whip up your own small browser extension to provide a simple formatted list of tabs, though.

Have you tried out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-all-tabs...

> Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

I expect that the vast majority of users would be entirely uninterested in the workflow you describe.