Many years ago I once had almost 10 000 tabs open at some point. Today I only have a few hundred tabs open like an average person. :)

Seems totally normal to me. Yep.

I suggest a tab grouping addon because there are scenarios where you can still lose your tabs with just session restore (eg if you open a new browser window, that often gets treated as a different session and it will only save the one closed last, so if you close the big tab one first and then close a single tab, you might find it only has that single tab saved when you load it up again).

I use Simple Tab Groups, which is set up to hide tabs from other groups until I switch to them, so it doesn't depend on what is going on in the active session (well, kinda, FF does provide a lot of the infra, like the loaded tabs from inactive groups are still loaded), but uses its own data to save/restore tabs that isn't just "save a flat list of tabs when window is closed".

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Mobile has at least 2000 tabs. (Tell Firefox to open on a new tab. Also told Firefox to not delete old tabs. About 2 years at least)

Trying to send to desktop to sort out. Crashes (both mobile and desktop) at around 1300 tabs too.

Help. I can’t find the ctrl button on my phone.

The day I learned this changed my life, and I love teaching it to coworkers and friends, it lights up their brains.

Someone also needs to teach the OP to use CTRL+H.

Just last week I closed over a thousand tabs, I regularly close over 700.

Same. Though there is an exception if I'm focused on a task or figuring out a particular problem. Then my number of tabs can spike to dozens. They all get closed immediately as soon as I finish or my flow is broken though.

People think I’m crazy too, similar number of tabs.

But History no longer works in so many browsers… it only lasts 30 days… and bookmarks are not suggested properly in the search / address bar the same way open tabs are, so it’s wrong, very very wrong, and quite naughty… but this is the way to achieve this specific kind of long-term referencing… with zero effort

Not to proliferate your issue but have you checked out extensions for tab trees in your browser? It let's you organize all the tabs you want yo keep. I've had the extension for years after someone told me about it. Maybe I'll think about using it today when I get to work and see the 5 or 6 browser instances with 20-40 tabs each I have open on my work pc...

it's called "if i put it out of sight i'll forget about it"

Ah, that is because you seem to have only two tiers of tab value, worth revisiting and not. There is a middle tier of "to be considered for evaluation when I have time". THAT is what all those extra tabs are for :) The crux of course is that there is rarely time to fully look at all those tabs, so they accumulate. As you can tell, I frequently suffered from this situation. My solution was to use an RSS reader so I could just leave the potential tab unread and save all the memory (that Sam Altman is currently salivating for).

Its hoarding behavior. At least it only affects that person. Probably a sign of poor mental health, if someone can't let go of old tabs. Maybe some angry tab collector will come set me straight though.

Then it's just a mess of bookmarks instead of tabs. And maybe I was in the middle of doing something and decided that I didn't want to do it anymore right then but would eventually return to it, which could involve multiple tabs together.

But I did get an addon to help save and manage my tabs after an instance of closing my main window while having another browser window open (sometimes it's nice to pull a tab out to a seperate window so you can see two tabs at once), which would lose the full set of tabs in FF (other than the single one in the other window).

When the browser restarts, it doesn't automatically load all of those tabs until you click over to them (at least by default, I think there is a setting for it if you'd rather it did).

Doesn't help if you have another browser window open, though you can get the window back from history, at least in Firefox based browsers

And whats the point of a 1000 plus bookmark list? You save 50 sites at a time, you will need duckduckgo to search your own bookmarks.

Yes, i use folders for my bookmarks. But sometimes i dont know what the fuck folder i put that bookmark in.

Suffering from a something of riches, I guess.

It's a FOMO hoarding thing or ADHD thing. People place great value on their passing interests. They see something like "oh that would be good to read/watch" and the tab structure becomes a kind of combined to-do and reminder list. Closing the tab feels like giving up, forgetting, or losing an opportunity. If the tab is still there, there's still an opportunity. Bookmarks don't work because it's out of sight/out of mind.

This isn't an argument for keeping so many tabs. It's an explanation. People will still feel the weight of so many things on their list and they really should just let them go. They'll feel lighter and they won't miss it (except for when they do) 👀

My life just lost all its risk.

Also, bookmarks exist for exactly this reason

Unless it was a private browsing session and now you can’t find that one video again.

Why not just use bookmarks

If you feel like reducing that little by little, Go to random tab is your friend !

Bookmarks are a thing. Then just open them up as a new tab group. Does FF do tab groups? I'm on mobile right now.

Once I accidentally deleted 2Tb of porn. I know the feeling.

You can change the setting in Firefox to purge everything when you close it, so if you end up with like 5 tabs you can just close it and open it again and its brand new fresh and clean

Speaking about a problem or difficulty you have is not (always) bragging. It can be a sane way to share about it with other concerned persons. You know, that's how we feel understood, and how sometime we find solutions.