“I’ve got too many tabs open” or “something something too many tabs across too many browser instances.” It’s a common phrase for a lot of us.
For me, maybe they are for research for a project, a handful of articles I’ll “read later” (even if I have a “read it later” app already), or just the accumulated debris that’s happened throughout the week.
Then I get prompted for an update. Maybe it’s for the browser itself or maybe it’s for the operating system. Regardless, either one requires a restart and though I read “we’ll restore your tabs after the restart,” I find this doesn’t happen consistently.
Maybe its PEBKAC. If that’s the case, though, maybe the solution can EBKAC, too.
The core problem is this: Closing everything means losing context. Sure, it’s possible to bookmark each tab individually, but that’s tedious. I could use a session manager extension, but most of them do far more than I need.
So I built Session Stash.
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