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This is quite a staggering amount imo... Why not just avoid painstaking and just start fresh? Is this a form of FOMO? Edit, you are at the point where you need

This is quite a staggering amount imo... Why not just avoid painstaking and just start fresh? Is this a form of FOMO? Edit, you are at the point where you need a search engine for your tabs, you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs. If I may ask, on what basis did you close all those tabs, did you read them all? What will you do with the rest?

rhn_mk1 6y ago
> search engine for your tabs Yes please! I've recently got interested in Recoll, which might not know what a tab is, but does search web history. > you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs Caching is valuable. URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace.
- Reelin 6y ago
  Memex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/ https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/) provides for searching your history and bookmarks. That might help alleviate the need to maintain sets of tabs. The Vimium extension for Firefox also happens to provide basic filtering of open tabs, although I've never tried it with anywhere near 1600. YMMV. Other commenters have already mentioned Tree Style Tabs and similar extensions which can aid in grouping and managing things efficiently. > URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace. This is a serious problem in my experience. To that end, Zotero is an invaluable research tool with browser extensions for (among other things) taking a snapshot of an open webpage. Its library exists externally to your browser though which might add friction to your workflow.
- jbc1 6y ago
  Safer and not a whole lot of work to backup your bookmarks if you're worried about changing or disappearing pages. Probably have a net time saving pretty quickly from regaining access to being able to use tabs as tabs again. Can self host using https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox or pay a service like pinboard.
rmetzler 6y ago
I use a chrome plugin (List All Tabs) which is able to show tabs as well as filter them and close them. I can type github in the filter and then jump to the one tab I search or close all the tabs I don't need.
- Reelin 6y ago
  In Firefox, the Vimium extension provides basic filtering functionality. No idea how well it would scale to 1600 tabs though.
  - rmetzler 6y ago
    I also use vimium on Chrome, but I never knew about any functionality for searching tabs. What key is it? Also I'm not sure if it would be helpful for websites like github where I disable vimium to be able to use the website's hotkey functionality.
    - Reelin 6y ago
      Shift-T for tabs. Shift-O for history, bookmarks, and domains (ie domain names that you've previously visited a page from IIUC). Like Vim itself, there's probably other useful functionality hidden away that I still haven't found out about yet.

rhn_mk1 6y ago

> search engine for your tabs Yes please! I've recently got interested in Recoll, which might not know what a tab is, but does search web history. > you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs Caching is valuable. URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace.

Reelin 6y ago
Memex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/ https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/) provides for searching your history and bookmarks. That might help alleviate the need to maintain sets of tabs. The Vimium extension for Firefox also happens to provide basic filtering of open tabs, although I've never tried it with anywhere near 1600. YMMV. Other commenters have already mentioned Tree Style Tabs and similar extensions which can aid in grouping and managing things efficiently. > URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace. This is a serious problem in my experience. To that end, Zotero is an invaluable research tool with browser extensions for (among other things) taking a snapshot of an open webpage. Its library exists externally to your browser though which might add friction to your workflow.
jbc1 6y ago
Safer and not a whole lot of work to backup your bookmarks if you're worried about changing or disappearing pages. Probably have a net time saving pretty quickly from regaining access to being able to use tabs as tabs again. Can self host using https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox or pay a service like pinboard.

rmetzler 6y ago

I use a chrome plugin (List All Tabs) which is able to show tabs as well as filter them and close them. I can type github in the filter and then jump to the one tab I search or close all the tabs I don't need.

Reelin 6y ago
In Firefox, the Vimium extension provides basic filtering functionality. No idea how well it would scale to 1600 tabs though.
- rmetzler 6y ago
  I also use vimium on Chrome, but I never knew about any functionality for searching tabs. What key is it? Also I'm not sure if it would be helpful for websites like github where I disable vimium to be able to use the website's hotkey functionality.
  - Reelin 6y ago
    Shift-T for tabs. Shift-O for history, bookmarks, and domains (ie domain names that you've previously visited a page from IIUC). Like Vim itself, there's probably other useful functionality hidden away that I still haven't found out about yet.