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Re:Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years by kevincox on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:16AM (#40265071)
Do tabs that are unloaded keep much state? My understanding was that they basically loaded as if a fresh navigation except for some extra form field preservation.

Or is the active state serialized to disk somehow?

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Re:Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years by rcxdude on Sunday May 05, 2024 @11:26AM (#40265561)
Not much state is kept: maybe about as much as if you were to navigate to the page again with the back button (which is an annoyingly little nowadays).
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