On 2023-06-03 at 07:18, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 03/06/2023 17:40, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Hey, now. I once had a Firefox session (with "restore tabs from >> previous session" enabled, and about six-to-eight windows) with >> 5,190 open tabs, and that computer only had 24GB of RAM. > > Modern browsers supports "unloaded" tabs, so most of your tabs likely > were similar to bookmarks with page resources not loaded to RAM.
That feature was, AFAIK, first introduced in the BarTab addon which I mentioned. So, yes, and although in hindsight I didn't state it explicitly, I intended to convey that by mentioning that addon. > P.S. Perhaps in future tabs as UI element in browsers will be merged > with bookmarks and browsing history. The only prerequisite to better > save state of scroll position and partially filled forms. I'm not sure quite what you're envisioning, but one reason why I keep so many open tabs rather than using e.g. bookmarks instead is because I want to be able to preserve forward/back history within each tab; I don't know of any other feature that enables doing that. I also can't think of another UI paradigm for interfacing with such a setup that would work any better than tabs do. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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