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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What’s the point tho? It’s not like you’re actively using the 10k tabs.

It’s an impossible amount of tabs to manage so the only explanation is they are opened, looked at once, and then thrown into an abyss for another tab to be opened in a continuous cycle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The post is here: https://lemmy.ml/post/16965449

In short, they wanted to keep the tabs bookmarked but didn't like working with the bookmarks implementations in conventional browsers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh. Well you can’t fix stupid