While this might seem like a horror story for those who value their browsing tabs and history (and for systems with Chrome browsers), Hazel retrieved those tabs-of-treasure thanks to the X community explaining how to restore an old Firefox browsing session from the profiles cache.
Good news for her. But I must say that’s not a healthy way to use a web browser. Even on my phone at about 50 Firefox tabs I will clear them all. If I was that crazy I would have 10 backup copies of the profiles cache file so I’d never lose it.
Firefox handles those poorly heads up. If I search “random topic” and all my related bookmarks populate I cannot open multiples. I cant select multiples to move. Their app sucks.
Years ago I wiped a friends IE history with CCleaner.
She freaked out because it turned out she wasn’t saving barely any favorites/bookmarks and was relying on the browser’s history to “save” her visited websites.
There are extensions for this sort of thing… i have probably 40 or 50 tabs stored in groups, but i use a tab group extension to allow me to store tabs based on context, and switch between them easily. Ive got my normal tabs, my shopping tabs, tabs for learning stuff for blender, programming tabs, all grouped off so i normally only ever have 10ish tabs open at a time.
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