I closed a lot of browser tabs

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by Macha on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:29AM (#28127096)

1. Bookmarks fail for medium term usage. There's some research material for a doc or PR I'm actively working on - Why bookmark, catalogue and eventually prune if I'm not going to need it past tomorrow?

2. Bookmarks don't keep page state. As more apps go the PWA route, not all of them have URIs that lead to your preferred state. Even just stuff like expanding/hide comment threads is a start, not to mention things like NPR which redirect me to the homepage if it's been too long since I last did the CMP dance.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by pjmlp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:56AM (#28127244)

1. Ongoing activities folder

2. Neither do tabs across process restarts or devices.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by Macha on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:20AM (#28127406)

> 1. Ongoing activities folder

So.... my current tabs list? Why spend the extra button clicks to explicitly save and delete it again

> 2. Neither do tabs across process restarts or devices.

So once a week my tab based setup gets reduced to the level of bookmark functionality, and hence I should just use bookmarks? I don't agree.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by maigret on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:52AM (#28127682)

You’d be saving energy by closing more tabs indeed.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by lmohseni on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:01AM (#28127268)

Regarding your second point, Firefox does both of these.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by pjmlp on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:06AM (#28127297)

It also does the same for bookmarks.

However it doesn't help when it isn't the same browser across both devices.

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