What sets it apart is only storing the "fatal pages". That's the entire point.

Those of us who keep accumulating tabs often do so as a "I think I care about this in the near future" halfway bookmark. I don't know about you, but my browser history for just this morning (it's noon here) is already so extensive that it's worthless for that purpose. When I do need to find something with Onetab, it's maybe 1% of the size of my browser history or less.

EDIT: What's more is that when I reopen, it disappears from the list, whittling down what's left over until I can confidently press "delete all" for a given activation (it groups the tabs by which were open when you pressed it; but you can also drag and drop the "bookmarks" from one list to another)

This pretty much exactly describes my (ab)usage of tabs. I had a tab open with the HN submission for the death of Google Reader for two years, because there were so many interesting replacement suggestions. I finally admitted that Google had ruined RSS for me, and closed the tab.

Thank you for the OneTab elevator pitch. I'll give it a try.

The browser history has been destroyed in my experience. No one seems to care for its usability. One-page applications, pushState/replaceState, non-descript title pages and a horrible UI for it in the browsers, it goes on.

I actually use my browser history, but I forget how much utility I actually get out of it until I clear it :S

What browser do you use where history is at all usable for finding any specific thing? Combing through 150 or 500 by-domain YouTube entries with no other metadata? That thing that was a week or three ago on, uh, some domain with --ohhh look-- multiple subdomains? Hope you remember some words from the page title?

Google and Mozilla have both completely shit on the entire idea of personal browsing continuity. Just close all your tabs at night, then go to the home page they provide and start from scratch every morning and nobody gets hurt.