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For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it's ctrl+tab, but only if you enable "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" in Settings first.

Also, usually, ctrl + shift + tab goes the opposite way
Default behavior is for psychopaths.

I'm so confused every time I use a new browser.
Ok that's incredible. I'm gonna get so lost now I've changed that setting. Magnificent
It’s so odd to me that this isn’t the default behaviour for all browsers especially Edge. It’s literally alt+tab behaviour but for some reason browser designers decided it wouldn’t work that way.

i know that you're suffering but, still, thanks for the laughter ! @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml

I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one

Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.

Unhinged behavior nonetheless
Control+Shift+T restores the last closed tab. That solution works lol (but it really feels like it shouldn't)

jesus. just use bookmarks.

Would Jesus' bookmark be shaped like a cross (morbid) or a fish (practical)?
- jesus looks like a slip of paper kinda guy
They do - https://lemmy.ml/post/33005112/19801519
- i wonder if they ever check back on those bookmarks

Best start a new tab and Google whatever you were looking at.

Crtl + L to go to address bar, type % then a space, then the tab you looking for. Will search open tabs

Helpful, but only works if I remember the name of the tab.
- It's either Facebook or Facebook.
In this I wish Firefox was more like Chromium. I use tab search a lot and Ctrl + Shift + A is much more efficient than this 3-step combo
- will let you search your bookmark. I think there might be one for history as well.
  
  Plus there might be a similar macro in Firefox I just don't know about
- Maybe something like this?
  
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab_search/

What do browsers even let you do this? I feel like it should cap out at like 200 max. Nobody even needs 200 but there's got to be some kind of limit somewhere.

200 is newbie numbers.
- Damn, I start getting overwhelmed at 10
If you can bg inactive tabs they just become another type of bookmark, because they don't the up any memory
- Then use bookmarks. We shouldn't design around people using products completely incorrectly.

Had to check if this was a post from adhsmemes group.

This is why tab search is a thing 😭

But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I'm dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I'll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

can I watch an intervention for a tab addict

That seems perfectly reasonable. That is little more than 100 tabs per window. I routinely have more than 500 tabs per window. Currently, I have 3 windows open with a rough total of 15000 tabs

Why?
- ADHD is like that.
Bro use the fucking bookmarks feature. Your electric company will appreciate the 10% reduction in grid load.
- Firefox only actually allocates memory for loaded tabs. I have >400 open at the moment but the 700MiB of memory are shared between three bloated websites and Firefox itself.

surely bookmark exist, why not bookmark your opened page ?
i remembered my old friend who has tons of chrome tab filled with porn

Meanwhile when I was looking for a new browser a bit back I tried finding one without a tab feature at all lol

I believe, you can basically turn it off in Firefox, by telling it to open new windows instead of tabs.

Might need to hide the tab bar via userChrome.css, though...
- Oh I have it figured out now :3
  
  But ye, I have my browser set to launch a new window. Not on firefox tho, I switched off of it cause I didn't care to mess with files just to get the tab bar off of my screen lol

https://lemmy.world/post/19332358

How much ram do they have?

in case you're not aware: modern browsers don't actually keep all tabs loaded all the time.
- Shhhh don't make us feel old.
all of it
- I was wondering why I couldn't find mine. I figured I just had short term memory loss.
- This is the way.

There are search in tab title extensions around, if your herding extension for the thousands of tabs not already supports that.

Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can't remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~
- Somebody else mentioned '%' but even without that if the URL matches completely it will default to switching to an open tab with it already open.
- Not sure. It seems it does or maybe not and it should, but i can't find how.

@aard@kyu.de is that an actual issue for you?

treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can't really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven't tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I'll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
- I love the new vertical tabs. I just wish I could select which side of the window the sidebar is placed on per window since I have a browser on each monitor.
  
  I also sort my tabs by entertainment or manuals in the one window, active reading or similar in the main window. That helps sort my 400+ tabs enough and if that's not enough I can always search.
- People really reinvent things like a bookmark manager.

Ctrl + tab if LRU is set.
It's like alt + tab for windows, but for tabs. :)

Also: Ctrl + h.... What?! A searchable history of all URLs ever clicked? Tomfoolery!