Browsing Dump method
When I go online and find some web page that interests me, I open it in a different tab. Since I browse a lot, tabs accumulate. I average around 500 tabs "opened" at all times.
This use to have a huge impact on my computer. It would consistantly crash because my browser would hog memory until there was none left. Even with 16Go of RAM, it would freeze1 after a while and I'd have to restart my computer.
So I setup strategies and found tools to deal with that issue.
I started using OneTab at first. It is a browser extension. It enable me to have the ability to store tabs and be able to find them chronologically in a unified page. But soon I discovered that for some reason, after certain updates to the extension, all my tabs would have been cleared with no recovery possible.
So I moved on to a different Firefox extension, called Tabstash. It had the same features as OneTab, with the additional ability to sync those tabs across sessions and save it online, by syncing it to Firefox Sync.
The extension could be opened in a side panel and tabs could be savec and unloaded pretty granularly2. The tabs were stored as bookmarks, chronolocially in folders. One problem were duplicates that easily would get stored. I paired Tabstash with Bookmark Duplicate Remover to remove such duplicates. It worked pretty well, but my Firefox bookmarks would get a bit untidy due to Tabstashed bookmarks would also be searched when I looked for a specific bookmark.3
Last Febuary, I was introduced to Sideberry. It's an extension that changes the way I deal with tabs. It's not ground breaking but it has nice features. If combined with Firefox specific parameters and user style, you can set it up so that tabs are displayed vertically in a sidebar instead of horizontally on top. Like the Arc bowser.
