The feature is called Tab Unloading, and weirdly enough they made it not easy to access despite its usefulness.

You basically have to type about:unloads in the address bar and hit enter. If you then click on “Unload”, it will put the least used tabs to sleep. If you keep clicking that button until it’s greyed out, you’ll have unloaded all your tabs from memory.

This feature is handy if you want to temporarily switch to something that is memory hungry without having to close your 100 tabs.

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    1 year ago

    Just close unused tabs smh

    Can’t understand people who’re juggling 100s of tabs

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      1 year ago

      Especially for school, I would have 10 to 15 tabs open per research rabbit hole. With lots of different assignments due, I’d have maybe 3 or 4 of these going at a time. It’s much easier to keep them open than to bookmark them and try to find them later.

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      1 year ago

      That’s fine, do what works for you. I usually have 50+ tabs open, sometimes >100. I’m a software dev, so I’ll typically have the following:

      • a dozen or so JIRA tickets
      • a dozen or so GitHub PR tabs
      • a dozen or so documentation tabs
      • several background tabs with stuff in listening to (usually music or streams)
      • several SM or news pages (for breaks)

      When I finish a project, I’ll close everything and start it all over again. I basically use tabs as a mixture of to-dos and bookmarks, but only for things I need in the short term.

      My personal computer usually only has 20 tabs or so, mostly with gaming wikis or shopping pages.

      It works well for me.

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      1 year ago

      I just say eh this one is important but I can’t rn so I’ll deal with it later. Anyway, 60 tabs waiting for me on FF Android. Idk how much I tabs are stashed on PC lol. ADHD struggles are real

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      Personally I use simple tab group that allow you to separate tabs into groups that you can open in different windows. It’s extremely useful but it means sometimes if you switch between multiple tab groups you might have a lot of tabs open, but using this would allow you to majorly mitigate that problem.

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      1 year ago

      They cannot juggle 100 tabs.

      Simple as that

      Its not possible to manage for anyone.

      Theyre just too dumb to close them

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        I use them as short term bookmarks, split into topical windows.

        One is a bunch of articles on a blog that I wanted to read during my hour-long commute, two windows are for two different APIs I’m trying to work with for a hobby projext, one for a bunch of documentation pages for different features of different modules of the language I’m using. One is for various entertainment pages I’m using at home, where fast WiFi offers a better experience for watching videos and streams and such.

        It’s perfectly possible to juggle those windows, and once I’m done with one of the APIs or the blog or something, I can just close the window to get rid of the tabs. It’s a convenient way to keep things open for either quick access or later reference without having to

        1. open each page
        2. bookmark it
        3. sort the bookmark into some appropriate folder in the corect order (if one refers back to an earlier topic instead of re-elaborating, I’ll want to read the earlier one first)
        4. close it
        5. go through those “saved for later” folders
        6. reopen them
        7. delete the bookmark when I’m done with that page

        or having to constantly navigate back and forth between different parts of the API and language reference and blog subpages.

        So no, I’m not too dumb to close tabs, I simply have a different workflow. I don’t understand why you feel the need to insult people over enjoying something you don’t get, instead of trying to learn why it’s useful to them. Is there a particular reason to get offensive here?

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      This, if you want to act on something later, just create a bookmark and set a reminder, act on what you need, then close and move on, don’t clutter your browser and your head.

      Usually, i open one window for each task, so i don’t get a lot of unrelated content mixed up and loose focus. I rarely need more than 1~5 tabs.