There are creators extensions that park the tabs if you don't use them for a time. Thst way there is no ram being eaten on my tab group of 50 tabs that I want to have when I go back to that rabbit hole.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have coworkers who do this, then they joke about it and laugh together on zoom calls while their audio/video/screen sharing abilities degrade and crap out one by one.

“I have 143 tabs open, I’m so terrible! Hahahahahahahaha!”

It’s not funny, Susan, you’ve derailed the entire meeting.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

It’s ok you can just download more RAM

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Every so many months I'll "Share all tabs" on my Android Firefox to a text editor with no file size limit (which can take a few minutes just for that), save the file, close all tabs to wipe the slate clean, and never open the file I saved again.

It's like I'm prepping for the day I win the lottery, and suddenly have as much time for this stuff as I did when I was a kid. But even were that to happen, I'd still have more responsibilities taking up my time than kid me ever did - and I'd still be trying to keep up with new stuff at the same time. sigh

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of those links will be dead by the time you get back to them

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But it's impossible to know which, and then there are those that won't be dead yet. For anything I really think is valuable, I use an extension that saves the page to a self-contained HTML file with all the resources packed in.

Besides, we both know I'll likely never get back to those links...

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once a year, Firefox croaks in a way that loses ally tabs and its the worst fucking thing that can possibly happen.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are session manager extensions that will keep a saved list for you to go back to. This is the one I use.