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[–] individual@toast.ooo 81 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] ywuduyu@piefed.social 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tried this and now there is a fucking ancient library in my room. Thanks for that.

[–] individual@toast.ooo 6 points 3 days ago
[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ctrl+Shift+n for entire Windows, not just tabs.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Ummm... Isn't that the batin hotkey?

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

came to post this, beat me to it

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Honzai@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Ctrl + shift + n brings back the whole window instead of just one tab (tested in Firefox)

[–] thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you close a whole window at once, Ctrl+shift+T brings back all at the same time

On chrome, Ctrl+shift+N opens an incognito window

hey that's what i closed

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

There are also recently closed tabs and recently closed windows in history

[–] individual@toast.ooo 2 points 3 days ago

or tap repeatedly

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago
[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What browser doesn't have restore previous session? I'd like to avoid that one.

[–] teegus@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe they were looking at some cultural content in incognito mode

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What, and risk not having it in your history 4 months later when you think "oh man that one video was super educational and would be very enlightening right now"?

[–] spamspeicher@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

For that we have yt-dlp for secure, offline copies on the disk. My po... eh, potentially very important video collection is growing day by day.

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[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] donalonzo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

You're like my grandma but instead of wrapping paper, you're hoarding anxiety.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)
  1. Bookmark anything important
  2. Delete history and other browser data on close

I can't be the only one?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
  1. Bookmark anything really important

  2. Hoard stuff that's really interesting that I'll get to eventually probably.

  3. Occasionally sift through the tabs to discard outdated stuff.

  4. (optional) Actually get to some of those things I'd get to eventually.

4 has happened too often for me to discard the system. Tabs are temporary bookmarks so my real bookmark folder doesn't get swamped with every interesting thing I see.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Add a step in between where you don't remember why you decided to left it open, and a final step where you're sure you had an open tab but you can't find it.

Tab groups are my best friend for the last part. I have a perpetual group for 'gift potentials', one for recipes, and one for a hobby of mine. Each group has between 5-20 tabs lol

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 4 points 3 days ago

bookmark folders

This is me.

I have Firefox delete everything besides container URLs, because I don’t want cookie and site data living on my computer. It would be a nice feature, but I’m not going to make a container for every website so they don’t sniff each others cookies like dogs sniff each others asses.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago
  1. Bookmark wayyy to much
  2. DDG it anyways
  3. Delete on close
  4. Wipe thousands of bookmarks every couple of years
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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This guy is going to be so surprised when he hears about the browser history.

[–] Blubber28@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or the "restore session" option.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

or ctrl +shift +t

(it reopens the last closed tab or window, can be spammed)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah but those tabs have been open for months, they're so far back in my history and I don't even know what was in there

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

I have my browsers set up to wipe themselves clean on exit.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i got 64gb ram so that i never had to close a tab again

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Should've done that, I foolishly though 32 GB would be 'enough'.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I got 4 monitors so that I'd never have to stop having a tab on top again. 64 gb to keep them running.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

20? Is that a significant number? I feel like I could memorize 20 urls. 400-500 would be a realistic number. What is this, the 90s?

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[–] InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
  1. It’s 2025, is there even a browser that doesn’t reopen your tabs by default? Who are the criminals building those?
  2. Keeping a zillion tabs open is a resource strain on classic computers. If people are up for it, they could explore saving tabs to stuff like task apps or bookmark services.
[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Every modern browser will snooze your tabs automatically, making them take practically no resources.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Those are rookie numbers

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My daughter has the same mental problem. You should hear her when I recommend closing a few tabs when she calls me for "my computer is so slow!".

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In firefox there's an extension that suspends tabs that haven't been active for a while. I guess that chrome has something similar.

In firefox as well, the vertical tab organizer is very helpful for people that use tabs as informal bookmarks.

[–] anguo@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In firefox there’s an extension that suspends tabs that haven’t been active for a while. I guess that chrome has something similar.

Firefox does that natively now, AFAIK. Also, a popular Chrome extension that did the same changed hands and turned to malware a while back, just FYI.

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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember double digits fondly.

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[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago

Ctrl + shift + n is your friend!

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly the Edge collections feature is fantastic for this, but it's hidden in a sub menu so it feels like they don't want people to use it.

They're like a hybrid bookmark and note taking feature, add a group, name it, add tabs to it, add notes to it, reorder it all, etc. Only thing it's missing is a way to turn a tab group or window into a collection and back again, it's a manual process currently (add/remote a tab at a time)

I use edge for work, and collections are sooo handy for keeping certain projects straight.

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