What browser doesn’t have restore previous session? I’d like to avoid that one.
Maybe they were looking at some cultural content in incognito mode
What, and risk not having it in your history 4 months later when you think “oh man that one video was super educational and would be very enlightening right now”?
For that we have yt-dlp for secure, offline copies on the disk. My po… eh, potentially very important video collection is growing day by day.
Tweet is from 2020.
Session restore has been reliable since like 2010 or longer
This guy is going to be so surprised when he hears about the browser history.
Or bookmarks
Or the “restore session” option.
or ctrl +shift +t
(it reopens the last closed tab or window, can be spammed)
yeah but those tabs have been open for months, they’re so far back in my history and I don’t even know what was in there
20? Is that a significant number? I feel like I could memorize 20 urls. 400-500 would be a realistic number. What is this, the 90s?
I too am a tab hoarder
It’s not, any developer has 10-20 tabs open at all times, it’s nothing.
Per jira ticket
Laughs nervously
You’re like my grandma but instead of wrapping paper, you’re hoarding anxiety.
What happens when your power goes out?
Luckily Firefox is really good at recovering all windows.
- It’s 2025, is there even a browser that doesn’t reopen your tabs by default? Who are the criminals building those?
- Keeping a zillion tabs open is a resource strain on classic computers. If people are up for it, they could explore saving tabs to stuff like task apps or bookmark services.
Every modern browser will snooze your tabs automatically, making them take practically no resources.
My daughter has the same mental problem. You should hear her when I recommend closing a few tabs when she calls me for “my computer is so slow!”.
In firefox there’s an extension that suspends tabs that haven’t been active for a while. I guess that chrome has something similar.
In firefox as well, the vertical tab organizer is very helpful for people that use tabs as informal bookmarks.
I remember double digits fondly.
Grouped tabs restore the illusion.
Those are rookie numbers
i got 64gb ram so that i never had to close a tab again
I got 4 monitors so that I’d never have to stop having a tab on top again. 64 gb to keep them running.
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