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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

'Hazel' doesn't close tabs because it's 'like a trip down memory lane.' Mozilla says it has some profile and tab group features coming later this year that might help her organize those memories.

A software engineer has been keeping nearly 7,500 Firefox tabs open on her Mac computer for over two years—and doesn't plan on closing them anytime soon. Hazel was able to bring the tabs back to life via a Firefox profile cache, however, and tells PCMag that reloading the full session took "no more than a minute." A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes "practically no memory whatsoever."

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