Software Engineer Loses 7,500 Browser Tabs She Had Open For 2 Years, Internet Gets 'Crazy Anxiety'
Too many open browser tabs present a different kind of existential crisis, and all corporate workers are only too aware of this problem. The most we do is surrender and try to close them after first complaining to a colleague. But for one woman, simply closing the tabs was not a solution. She left a whopping 7,470 tabs open on her Firefox browser and she panicked the moment she lost them hoping for a way to get them back. But anyone reading this probably knows how the ill-fated tabs are gone for good. The question remains: why and how did this professional manage to reach this point? Read on to find out what happened.
Who is the woman who left 7,470 browser tabs open?
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X user?@sodiumPen sure got attention with her tweet. She shared how she the tabs she had open on Firefox, all 7,470 of them that she had open for two years, crashed suddenly. A software engineer, Hazel had no choice but to turn to the internet for help. "Firefox refused to restore my session that i've had going for 2+ years....over 7k tabs down the drain...." she wrote in a tweet that got 5.1 million views.?
What happened next?
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Going by her subsequent tweets, she eventually got the help she needed but the internet was in utter disbelief. "Thank you to everyone who provided info on how to restore an old session from the profiles cache... i feel like a part of me is restored," she wrote.
What happened next? "The session file which contains the tab information is only about 70mb, and Firefox only loads a tab in memory if I've opened it recently," Hazel explained. Fortunately for her, it took 'no more than a minute' for the 7,470 web pages to be restored, revealed Hazel.
A Mozilla representative reportedly also shared that Firefox requires 'practically no memory whatsoever'. "We've been working hard on the performance of Firefox over the last several years, and we're glad to see the results of those efforts paying off."?
How did the internet react?
"Sounds like it was a much-needed intervention," one user quipped. "Hearing that volume of tabs has given me crazy anxiety," admitted another.?"At this point, with those numbers, you kind of needed it as a lesson," was a third user's verdict. "Never heard of bookmarks?" asked a fourth.
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