Tab Unloading in Firefox 93

Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by MrDresden on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:23AM (#28770915)

I'd be fascinated to hear how it works in practice to have that many tabs active? Are you able to digest them in any reasonable fashion or even find content later on when you need it?

I can't relate to that amount of tabs, but do have an upper limit of around 100 at which time I start actively trimming them down (either dismiss as having lost importance, digest or bookmark for later digestion).

My bookmarks steadily grow, but are categorized, tagged and labelled in such a way that I can easily find and digest certain types of urls later on when I feel ready for it. They do grow faster then I can consume them though.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by Luc on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:50AM (#28771066)

I find it much easier to use than bookmarks. It's a great for research, when you have disparate bits of information spread out over dozens of sources. I close tabs as they become irrelevant. A window may have a lifetime of a few days to about a year. When I'm done I save its state using Tab Session Manager. By that time it's a 'best of' on that subject.

I also used 'New Tab Suspender' and 'Total Suspender' add-ons for a while in an attempt to reduce memory usage, but stopped due to Firefox crashes I assumed were caused by them.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by exikyut on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:31AM (#28771366)

You had me at "My bookmarks are ... tabbed".

Please tell me I'm missing something and that there's a way to do this in Chrome so I can access the tags on my phone????

I have about 30,000 unsorted bookmarks.

Yes.

Because I need tagging.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by MrDresden on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:38AM (#28773013)

I'm not sure about Chrome, as I use Firefox.

Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser.

So I navigate by folder hiearchy on mobile; read > professional > development > android > db for instance.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by dredmorbius on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:19AM (#28782832)

Mobile Firefox (Fennec) doesn't support tags, but the text descriptions are searchable when entering URLs, so you can key off of those.

Effectively full-text-search tagging.

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Re:Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 by exikyut on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:16AM (#28774164)

> Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser.

Oh. TIL. That's... a bit of an unexpected shortcoming I wasn't aware of. Hmm...

(My Chrome session is big enough that I don't quite have the RAM to play with Firefox, which I was coincidentally last playing with just as the WebExtensions update kicked in and broke my UI setup. Welp.)

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