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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

i appreciate ff can do this and all, but isnt this usecase covered by you know, the browser history?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I find bookmarks simply useless compared to tabs. Massive cognitive burden to sort and categorize. Also can't search the content text.

I prefer textfiles full of urls more than bookmarks

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

I find bookmarks simply useless compared to tabs. Massive cognitive burden to sort and categorize. Also can't search the content text.

I prefer textfiles full of urls more than bookmarks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there's no way to change this or to export the data.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This says its not time limited, but firefox will start purging once it starts effecting performance:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1410679

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know, that sucks so much.
Though, someone made a post on superuser and a reply said that you can back up the database, so at least something is salvageable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but if you import a backed up db wouldn't the old entries just get deleted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They said you can merge without conflicts:

Making a backup every 60 days seems to be sufficient to keep all history. sqlite doesn't reuse old ids (I think?) so merging the backups shouldn't be too hard.

But they haven't tested it, also I wonder if once you do that successfully, Firefox will just delete all the extra records at the next startup, so idk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The entries would still be datestamped and as firefox clears up the history the older ones would be deleted.

In my other comment I linked something that said firefox just starts tidying up as performance starts to degrade, rather than a fixed limit of history entries.

Therefore, if your history is more or less full, and you just import a heap more history, firefox is just going to "tidy up" everything you just imported surely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also history search is terrible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, if I'm trying history search, I know I've already lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You can change how often it deletes history items, I'm sure I've done that before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Just bookmark it, jeez...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Mine has history going back to Nov 2022 (though I'm not entirely sure why it stops there).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Of bookmarks, I always have like 20 tabs max open at once, I feel alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Don't be, I normally have no more than 3, no more than 7 when actively multitasking