Open tabs are like frozen functions (or even better, frozen stacks or trees). In addition to the content itself they also preserve the info about how I got ther

Open tabs are like frozen functions (or even better, frozen stacks or trees). In addition to the content itself they also preserve the info about how I got there and, hopefully, some notion about what I intended to do next. This wont be captured as easily in a bookmark or evernote. Right now I have 8 browser windows open and on average each one of them has 30 tabs open and this is on a laptop that has 512Mb of RAM. I can pull this of with FF 3.6 (some what tweaked), which of course I leave open for months on end. On another machine I am running FF 8.02a, it definitely seems lighter, but most of the add-ons that I use do not support it yet. Using Chrome this way will kill my box(es). So yes I am one of those incomprehensible corner cases that many complain about. The one that expects that software should be tight and memory leak free. This is in contrast to what I get to hear a lot, "leaks dont matter, just restart your browser" or "memory is cheap, go buy some". No thank you, I would still like to retain control over who gets to decide (a)when to close an application and (b) where my money should be best spent. Why do I do this ? perhaps because its is the most unobtrusive way of deferring or saving a thread. Tabs are my poor man's alternative to evernote, reminders, frozen trains of thought etc etc, that I do not yet consider permanent enough to bookmark and those that I can organize spatially and into groups and all that with minimum effort. So essentially this is my way of maintaining two sets of bookmarks one volatile, spatially mapped, (almost) random access, higher priority and most crucially with a history that I can access with back&forth buttons, the other more permanent bookmark has a different set of complementary properties. Some of my tabs graduate to being bookmarks but not all. To do all this I have to enlist the assistance of a few add-ons that keeps the inactive tabs unloaded. I use one called restore-control[1] (that or bartabs[2]). The other add-on I use is searchTab[3] to index the contents of the pages so that I can search for it based on a few words that have stuck in my memory. But usually I have a fairly good handle of where spatially they will be located so I dont really need to search. [1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restore-control/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restore-contr... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/ [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-tab/