Don't close my tabs!

Other people's computer usage is weird to me.

I just bookmark stuff if I think I'll need it later, and I usually don't even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.

People not understanding that we understand bookmarks exist is weird to me.

For me it's a suspected ADHD thing. If I make a bookmark:

I have to context-switch into "cleaning up" mode. Leaving a tab open is not distracting, having to name it and categorize it is.

Bookmarks are virtual drawers. Anything I put in a drawer might as well be in a cave in Alaska guarded by a troll as far as my brain is concerned. If I intend to look at this in the next 2-3 weeks, I keep the tab open because it's a virtual reminder I've not yet done the thing.

Yes, I've got tabs open from over a year ago. Those ones don't serve a purpose, I'll get around to cleaning up... eventually.

Honestly if I was forced to close my browser sessions at the end of the work day, not joke, not an exaggeration, I'd switch jobs. I'm working on too many different complex things to have to rebuild my mental model of where everything was at from scratch every morning. I would not get anything done.
- Tab groups is my new compromise for this 👌
- This probably won't help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it'll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I've definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.
  
  I don't believe I have ADHD so I can't really relate to it. My original post wasn't meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn't always bad. Just different.
  
  It's mildly interesting that you wouldn't get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn't get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.
Well, what if you think you don't need it later, but you do? I don't trust my own judgement here!
- Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.
  
  Admittedly, a couple times I haven't been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it's never been important stuff.
- This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember "forever"

Haha good one!

Rushes to hide my 600+ open tabs

Those are rookie numbers!

No, seriously. One time I realized one window's tabs were nothing but porn. So I closed the whole window. 247 tabs all at once closed. That was one window. I had 22 more windows.

I genuinely have no idea how many tabs I have open.

I've got tabs open! Don't close my tabs! I need those tabs!

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox

To bookmark all open tabs in a window at once:

Right-click on any of the tabs and choose Select All Tabs from the context menu.

Right-click on any tab again and select Bookmark Tabs….

Give the new bookmarks folder a name and choose which folder to store it in.

Click Add Bookmarks to finish.

Or just ctrl+shift+D (or equivalent non-Windows shortcut I imagine)
- I didn’t know that one, thank you!
I found that out just by right clicking the tab and going from there, didnt know they made a whole support article for it XD
- Many support articles are written by volunteers, I believe, which is nothing short of amazing.

No, I won't take the bait. :)

stuffs worms on hooks in your mouth

YES YOU WILL!!!
- Pfff. Fine. Ctrl + h. ;)

You gotta set aside time in your schedule to deal with those tabs.

I started groovin' and she started movin'
And we really started feeling fine
In the midst of consummation she caused me aggravation
When she started messing with that mouse

Don't you close that tab!
It's my favourite website
Don't you close that tab!
It goes on and on again

Faster Pussycat!