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I recently had over 4,000 tabs opened on Firefox for Android. The app kept crashing when I tried to "share" (export) them, so I manually selected them in group

I recently had over 4,000 tabs opened on Firefox for Android. The app kept crashing when I tried to "share" (export) them, so I manually selected them in groups of 100 to "share" at a time. Other than that, the only issue I had with the app is that if I was typing something in the URL/search bar, it would take a while to find any matches in my browsing history. Over half of the tabs were HN posts that I've been meaning to get back to. I keep telling myself (lying to myself?): One day I will.

hammyhavoc 4y ago
TIL there's a fucking export function after having manually copied and pasted 1000+ URLs from it on another machine. Urgh. Now I know for next time.
- zeroimpl 4y ago
  Could also "Bookmark All Tabs" and then export your bookmark list.
1MachineElf 4y ago
I've just now gone through the steps to export my Brave Browser for Android tabs into a JSON file and I think I've set a new record for myself: [me@comupter]$ cat tabs.json | grep "page" | wc -l 17022 That's all of the "open" tabs since I got this phone back in January of this year. So about 7 months worth. I was aware Brave automatically puts tabs to sleep to conserve resources, and this confirmed to me that Brave wasn't auto-deleting any after a certain time-based or numeric threshold. Yes I am a big-time tab accumulator, but I'm sure the number would be smaller if the Brave team would just implement the "Bookmark All Tabs" feature that's been requested since at least 2019: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5711 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/5711 Method to get open Google Chrome tabs from an Android phone into a JSON file (steps are identical for Brave Browser): https://android.stackexchange.com/a/199496 https://android.stackexchange.com/a/199496