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I tried, it said
So, I said no
Sorry, I'll be honest, I find your browsing methods offensive, I think 2185 tab is ridiculous and you should be shutting that shit down, looking at my wife's phone with 150 tabs makes me anxious and I avoid it .. but then it also occurs to me that you should be doing you.
I don't know of a keyboard shortcut that could find your previous tab, but you were on the tab recently, did you refresh it? could it be in your recent history? This makes me vomit in my mouth a bit .. but could you open yet another tab with the same page from your browser history?
Alternatively if your scroll position on the tab matters, could you use the down arrow to the right of the infinite accordion of tabs at the top of your window and use the "Search Tabs" option to find the tab using the name of the site from your search history?
I came here directly after reading a post about the important of rage bait awareness... this is fucking hilarious
I see from your other post that you already found it, but also have 100s of tabs with the same name, this is wild. I just can't even grasp why you would want this for yourself. Good luck.
I'm not going to be wasting my time, closing and sorting tabs, I have many thousands of pages to read and I can't be spending half my time deciding when and whether I am done with this or that group of thousand more tabs.
I have tab manager plus for searching tabs, and most of the time this works great when I've lost of a tab. But there's one really annoying trouble, it can only search tab titles, it cannot search the content of tabs.
This is a severe limitation but far from the only one. Bookmarks don't even save the information inside the tab, the browser just assumed the information on the server could be retrieved forever so it does not save any of it.
I could go on all day about all the limitation of this browser but it's still the best. The cutting edge is a blunt knife from 1996.
As for the browser history, the pages are listed in order of opening date
So that doesn't help find my tab, which could be any one of the thousands of tabs.
My ideal browser, could search find a video, based on a loose text description, without accessing the internet to do it.
But we are really far from that !
do you really have to read all of them? do you really have no time to sort tabs and remove unneeded ones?
I can't tell if they're unneeded without reading them. Reading them is also needed to sort them. How else to know what to sort them as or if they don't contain information other than reading them. If I had an integrated AI, maybe it could do this tedious task for me, but there isn't currently such as thing that works with my self hosted AI.
You know you can save pages as they are at the time of writing to your hard drive, right? Since they're just files, you can sort them however you want, and you can search both title and content in whatever way you'd like.
Videos don't really work though, but they won't work with your current method either.
I see things sometimes and I'm like yeah i should read that and I bookmark it and then its gone to the void, never to be heard from again. On my phone I leave the tab open and its the same thing, but pretty regularly I go in and maybe bookmark some, or just kill the rest. If i don't read it then and there, its unlikely I'm working my way back to find the thing. Even if i save a post, its rarely getting a look in. Sometimes I look at my youtube watch later videos, but I'm probably not saving anything on current events in that.
Yes the current system basically cannot handle this much information. At some point there is no choice but to take the whole thing and send it to the trash bin (bookmarks)
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Bruh WTF, don't do that :/