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Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session


Losing two years' worth of browsing tabs is no laughing matter.

A recent post by X user Hazel complained that a browsing session with over 7,000 open tabs, maintained for the last two years, had been totally cleared. Furthermore, Hazel told PCMag that the session took less than a minute to reload, meaning it wasn’t a drag on her system. Chrome and Edge followed suit one year later, in 2022, and introduced a similar feature called Sleeping Tabs.

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