Oops, I clicked a random tab, now I can’t find my previous tab.
Surely there is a keyboard shortcut to go back where I was ?
Note : I have 2185 tabs open in 21 windows
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
