I commend your tab hoarding. I just want to know how much RAM you have to support that. I have 32 GB, Firefox won't load them until I click on them, and it still struggles at 100 tabs.
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I have 64 gb I reboot daily or else the system becomes unusable.
Most tabs aren't loaded since it takes often many gigabytes to display simple text pages in 2025.
I have no way to know how many actually active tabs I have but it's not more than a few dozens and then firefox just starts deleting data from memory as if it could be obtained again later.
If you're not against them, you could try vertical tabs with the Sidebery extension. It has a shortcut (not bound by default) to flip between the pervious tab and current tab.
I'm thinking the best fix here may be to see a psychiatrist, get a diagnosis, and some medication. Then close the tabs.
Ctrl+Shift+Tab is Ctrl+Tab in reverse order.
Or you can Ctrl+W to close your tab and it should pop back to the last one.
Should be noted that Ctrl+[Shift+]Tab behaves as you describe by default, but there's a checkbox in the settings to make it go through tabs left-to-right, so it's possible OP changed that behaviour...
Based on your other comments here, you should probably start organizing your tabs before your browser simply crashes.
When the tab count goes over 5000, I dump alll of them in a bookmark folder and start all over again.
That's just digital hoarding, especially if you never revisit those bookmark folders.
You can search the text inside bookmarks so they're basically useless. They're just the URL and page title, useless. I mean, better than nothing, but it's impossible to find anything in there or make any sense of it, makind sense of folder with 10k+ bookmarks in them
There are web clipping tools - even open source ones - to help you with stuff like this.
Holy shit this is a great bit because I'm like this but a couple orders of magnitude lower on the tab count. My SO criticizes my Firefox abuse.
OP might be an AI scraping tool that gained sentience. Bro needs to read billions of web pages.
Alt-F4
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.
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Bruh WTF, don't do that :/
Have you tried saving pages you return to often as bookmarks instead?
Yes, even with an addon like "single hmlt file" it become a huge managerial chose to keep, there is no way to search any of it, it's also a very manual process to do.
First off, wow... How do you have 2185 tabs open and 21 windows? That's impressive and infuriating.
Utilize tab groups. Organize a bit.
What possible purpose could you have for that many tabs?
I don't have the time to organize those thousands of tabs. I heard they introduce tab groups, but I find them very annoying. I occasionnaly "tag group" some tabs, not sure how exactly it's happenning but I just ungroup them.
I don't group them, I don't have the time for that. They should just group themselves. I had an add on that would take all tabs from all windows that were from a particular domain, and pull them out into their own window,, what was very useful, but it broken in a recent update.
tab manager plus does something similar but it's quite a few extra steps, but it can also use search terms to perform the same thing
What possible purpose could you have for that many tabs?
Tab accumulate because I am not willing to give them an evalution to know if I am done with them or not.
Ideally they should get auto sorted by project and date and be able to summon back when I revisit whatever topic this is about. But there's no automatic way to do that which doesn't involved a lot of manual manipulation so I don't. It just blobs up into a mass of 10000 tabs, then I save it into the bookmark folder where they are probably never seen again. Since the bookmark manager as it currently exist, is super useless.
Sounds like a workflow issue.
There's an option in the settings to make Ctrl+Tab cycle by last used tabs instead of the order they appear in in the tab bar. I have that turned off, so can't tell you 100% whether it does what you want...
Otherwise of course if you still know the name of the tab, just type whatever you can remember into the address bar, that is how I find tabs usually.
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i think at that point the better solution is to have less tabs open
guys help i put the candle i just bought in the wrong pile and now i can't find it. please don't tell me i have to look at the candles to find the one i'm looking for
Yes, it would be great if I could open only the tab that has what I'm searching for.
do you just middle click every result of the search engine and never close any of them?
You do know tabs can be closed, right?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/851489
Someone else had a similar or same question too. This is the discussion on Mozilla support on it.
That said, 2185? Don't be miserly, come on, hit that sweet 2200 already
it might not help if you don't know the name of it but there's also a list all tabs button in the toolbar which lets you search and filter tabs.
Holy crap. Use the Tab Stash extension. Separate tabs into windows and stash the entire window. It will save them all to a group or collection that you can name, and you can go back and reopen them when needed.
Seriously, I can't imagine how outdated your browser is if you never close it, not to mention the last time you restarted your computer. You're one power failure away from chaos.
If you also get the xBrowserSync extension, you can back up all your bookmarks and tabs so if your computer ever dies you can restore it to a new browser install.
I restart the browser often. seems to be the only reliable way to free up all the resources it uses and prevent crashes. That does update the browser, I'm on 104.0.4 so I get to enjoy stuff I didn't ask, changing and the occasional thing breaking. At some point I'll choose a version I like and freeze it in place and prevent it from updating entirely.
I also have an addon to merge all windows and another to order all tabs by their domain name.
Once in a while I'll dump everything into book marks (and never open them again, since bookmark are basically impossible to effectively search).
I tried "tab stash" and just ended up losing hundreds of "hidden" tabs, it didn't lighten organizational load, it was just something to manage on top of it all.
For browser sync, I still use firefox sync, the best I can say about it is that it works, however, there are no want to actually search the content in the sync database. So it's only for sharing tabs between devices and backup the tabs and bookmarks.
Contact your doctor and ask to be tested for ADHD because holy shit you have this or something akin. Let me guess, you also cycle through hobbies constantly and have 100 projects you're "working on" right?
Here's a bit of advice: if you can't even remember what all the tabs have in them or which is which or what's important(which you constantly allude to when talking about searching through them).....NONE OF IT IS. It's the easiest ADHD clutter cleanup method: if you can't even remember that something specific exists and it's just a giant generic pile, it's all junk. If it really mattered, you'd have already sorted it or remembered it. Now it's just hanging around as emotional baggage.
Dump all of it and if any of it actually happens to have been important, you'll find it again if you really need it. If you don't find it again, then you didn't need it in the first place. And start using something to actually take notes and sort this shit. 2000+ tabs is insanity if this isn't a troll.
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