For most people, having more than a few dozen tabs open at the same time is pure chaos. But one bold Firefox devotee has put that notion to rest, revealing that he diligently maintained a staggering 7,470 simultaneous tabs in a single window for more than two years straight.
The dedicated tab hoarder, known only as “Hazel,” posted a post on X last week, lamenting that his massive two-year-old browsing session was wiped following a glitch.
But what makes someone keep so many tabs open all the time? For Hazel, it’s about maintaining an organized “memory trail” that allows her to easily return to topics, projects and discoveries dating back several months, even years. “ I love going back and seeing groups of tabs from months ago – it’s like a trip down memory lane of what I was doing/learning/thinking “, he explains.
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These 7000 tabs did not impact the performance of his computer
Surprisingly, Hazel says the performance impact of thousands of loaded tabs is “marginal” thanks to Firefox’s tab unloading and sleep features. The entire session cache of 7,470 tabs only consumed about 70MB of storage, Firefox intelligently keeping inactive tabs out of memory. “ Firefox only loads a tab into memory if I opened it recently Hazel noted, adding that reloading the entire session took less than a minute.
Internet users were obviously concerned about the ability of Hazel’s PC to handle such a monumental browsing session. But the tab collector assured them that his computer still worked normally despite the large number of tabs kept on Firefox.
The good news is that other users were able to guide Hazel in recovering her colossal stash of tabs from Firefox’s cache. By going to about:sessionrestore in the address bar, you can click on a special button which should be able to restore your session if the browser fails to do this automatically when opened.
Source: sodiumPen