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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is this a new mental illness I haven't heard of?

In an interview with PCMag, Hazel said she keeps all those tabs open because she likes “to scroll back and see clusters of tabs from months ago — it’s like a trip down memory lane on whatever I was doing/learning about/thinking about.” So, when she recovered her 7,000+ tab browsing session, she said, “I feel like a part of me is restored.”

Actually that's kinda cool. I shouldn't be a hater.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

But... Firefox has a history feature that would serve her purpose much better?

[+] Etterra -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No it's probably s mental illness or something. If she like the tabs as a memoir thing, she should do what people have done on vacations for decades - take pictures (aka here as screenshots or saved pages).

[–] MinorLaceration 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So not archiving these memories in the way you would determines whether or not it is a mental illness? How is taking photos any mpre or less of a mental illness than leaving the tabs open?

Seems like quite the jump to conclusion to assume it is a mental illness.

[–] Kushan 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're literally describing windows recall

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

No, literally describing pressing the "print screen" button