I closed a lot of browser tabs

Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by bane on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @09:40AM (#28128703)

The problem is that browsers have a broken model of memory:

1 - Tabs are current attention.

2 - Bookmarks are long-term memory, but don't store content, only meta-data.

What browsers need is

1 - Current attention

2 - Working memory, where old tabs automatically capture content and slide off into some kind of easy to recall state, but are no longer tabs

3 - Bookmarks, but with content storage, better organization, indexing, and retrieval.

Evolution spent billions of years to arrive at this kind of scheme, we should mimic it.

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Re:I closed a lot of browser tabs by cookiengineer on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:51PM (#28134339)

This literally was the primary reason to build my peer to peer browser that has a persistent cache which can be shared with other (local) peers.

I think the cache needs to be persistent and offline ready, ignoring ETags and other stupid headers. Otherwise it's a useless cache that is not controlled by the user.

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