So I have this terrible habit of leaving tabs open so I can reference them later (and 80% of the time, I never reference them). I accidentally “X’ed-out” of Firefox this morning and it told me I had a whopping 177 tabs to close!
Is there a Firefox plugin that’ll record the URL’s of all my tabs and easily open them later? I understand Firefox will save the session when closing, but I want to be able to keep a history of sorts of my tabs so I can close them all and access them later.
I’m not sure if I’m being clear with what I’m asking.
I start off with around 80 tabs, which inches inexorably to about 160 tabs + sometimes, on a daily basis, I open a lot of images to check through, which pushes it temporarily to 200 - 400 tabs.
After a while I junk the whole lot and start again, but reach the same amount after a while; however, theoretically I can go back to any point in time to open up, say, march 11th 2011’s tabs, or the set of any other time by usingSession ManagerWhich I will do, I swear, one day, just not right now…
My sessions folder is a mere 5.4 GB; and remember, that’s not saved stuff, just records of sessions.
Second only to that in usefulness, is Fx **Scrapbook,**which saves webpages entire ( and could apparently with some tweaking save a whole website same as hhtrack etc. ). If you need a page as permanent reference — rather than something to revisit once — you can always just open the saved page up from the list.
I used to love bookmarks, and an extension called *Bookmark Here, *copied from Opera probably, was my favourite Fx tool of all. Then I realised, despite carrying on bookmarking, I opened a bookmark as frequently as I typed an url: maybe 4 times a year.
Linkwad to manage groups (a wad) of links. Stored on a web client so you can access the wads from anywhere.
And if you have a widescreen, I recommend a Sidebar Tab Manager to see all the open ones better. You can then tree them in open and close hierarchical tabs/menus.
Not on topic but might be useful. Tabmix plus is wonderful tab manager that I’d be lost without. It let’s set the number of tab rows, set tab width, auto reload tabs, lock them and on and on. You’ll get lost in all of the features.
Session manager is great for saving and backing up sessions. You can even save individual windows with their tabs and restore any combination of windows and tabs. Another plug-in w/ scads of features.
I agree with Tab Mix Plus, with it and dozens of extensions and about:config tweaks I’ve nearly got Firefox back to the glory days, before they turned it into a minmalist clone of Chrome.
Still takes a lot of memory though.
There’s another extension for storing groups, TooManyTabs , but I found it a bit heavy.