Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by Ajedi32 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @02:54PM (#28763919)

Maybe a sufficiently good implementation of history search could replace the need for bookmarks entirely. Instead of just matching on page titles, match on content as well. Rank results according to relevance and time spent on the page.

Or alternately, maybe bookmarks could become an extension of existing tab management features. Something like Chrome's tab groups or the Tree Style Tabs[1] extension for Firefox, but with the ability to "archive" tabs or groups of tabs into a searchable repository for later reference.

Just some ideas...

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by bsdetector on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @08:37PM (#28767669)

History should do an automatic Save As, Complete for every page. History search should do a full-text search. Viewing a page from history should open the saved version, with reload or a button to load the original URL.

These are all obvious ideas for computers with lots of memory and disk space, but browsers are one-size fits all designed for 4 GiB laptops and old phones.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by earthscienceman on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:18PM (#28764280)

These are actually really good ideas, I had never thought of it like this but I like it. History is really all you need in the end. Bookmarks are just a starred version of history, which could easily be included in the matching algorithm you're talking about.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by robertoandred on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:09PM (#28765667)

Safari's history search has been able to search content for a probably decade now.

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