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As.someone who only used a couple of tabs open and even then upon restart of Firefox only has one tab open, this seems like a feature I wouldn't really use?
You are one of the blessed minimalist ones. I feel most users are drowning in tabs.
I have 1408 tabs open. I use Tab Manager Plus to make sense of it all
Can't wait until we can use a locally running AI to search inside the tab contents and group tabs by content topic, because TMP can only search tab titles!
You might as well close the tabs and use a search engine at that point right? I honestly dont understand the workflow here
But I found the content ... I don't want to have to search again. Also google is becoming terribler by the day And I want to search that stuff locally, in my browser, I want to search the content of the tabs from my browser. From a single tab and only the subset of my tabs, not the whole internet.
It's like having your books on the table, open on the right page. And putting them back on the shelves, and then searching for which books to search. When we have a functionally infinite lenght table (well, about 2000 active tabs is about the limit for my 64gb system)
It's like having your books open, with a mark in the book for the page. A book mark, if you will
Maybe that's good enough for 1996, but that doesn't do it for me.
I want all those tabs, and all their content, in ram, and disable auto-discard. If the memory overflows it should write it to my pcie5 m.2 ssd not discard.
And that's just a stop-gap measure, because I want this data in my GPU's VRAM part of a locally running open source text generative AI's context, so I can ask it questions about it.
I want to tell it, "take all my open tabs that relate to "HF radio" put them in their own window, open a new ownnotes and write an essay about the current status of my DIY amplifier project and then create a new check list of the design elements I still need to create"
So, bookmarks, with the broken search that won't let you search just one folder, no categorization, no visual preview, it doesn't even save the content and just assumes the content will still be available at a later date, it's too cloudbrained.
I think this is totally reasonable, and a very forward thinking imagining of what the future of the internet could be like. I just thought that the analogy you made in the previous comment was a good one to poke fun at.
I like the idea of being able to run elasticsearch/whatever on a local copy of the full text of all of your bookmarks.
I have turned that into a suggestion for the firefoclx team
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/using-an-ai-assistant-offline-air-gapped-non-cloud-open-source/idc-p/53332/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufExUUDE0SlUxRFZZSEpDfDUzMzMyfFNVQlNDUklQVElPTlN8aEs#M31113
If it's at the point you need a tab manager, surely you could just use bookmarks.
I have never recovered a tab from a bookmark, except for the few on my bookmarks toolbar
Bookmarks manager doesn't even store the tab's contents, it's search is quite terrible anyway.
For me, the bookmarks manager is a trashcan with folders containing 10s of thousands of tabs and no real ability to search it
What is the memory usage like?
Near 40gb, I'm running about 50 addons, using tons of containers and strict isolation.