Save a window and all it's tabs to be recalled at a later time to free resources

[random_kevin]

I would like to suggest that you come up with a way to be able to save a window and its tabs into something like history that's more accessible. The point to this is to save system resources while doing other work.

An example of this would be this: A Firefox window is opened to shop for PC components. Multiple tabs are opened to various websites comparing prices. I would like a way to save that window and it's tabs and come back to it later. Minimizing that window would leave all those processes AND THEIR ADS running, downloading, playing, etc. in the background and I don't want that. Going back to it in History only saves the latest window. I would like to be able to save several of these windows with their tabs on different "topics" to go back to after work or on the weekend.

If there's an add-in that will do this, that would work too.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Windpool]

THERE ARE MANY TIMES THAT I'VE CLOSED A WINDOW BY ACCIDENT AND COULDN'T GET BACK. ALL MY PREVIOUS TABS WERE GONE FOR GOOD. THIS INABILITY IS SERIOUS MAKING ME CONSIDER ANOTHER BROWSER.

[Jon]

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[jscher2000]

Hi Windpool, the moment you realize what has happened, try recovering the closed window using the History menu. Either:

• "3-bar" menu button > History > Recently Closed Windows
• "Library" toolbar button > History > Recently Closed Windows
• (menu bar) History > Recently Closed Windows

There's also a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+N (different than Chrome).

By default, Firefox remembers up to 3 recently closed regular windows, but zero recently closed private windows.

[S1]

I couldn't agree more.  This is the worst and most aggravating problem with Firefox.  I often have dozens or hundreds of tabs open, and I have to remember to always close my main, multiTab instance/window of Firefox last, or all my tabs are lost.  I've reported this problem multiple times.  I then have to spend hours going through the history to try and remember which were the tabs I had open, and then open them again.  The worse aspect of this problem is rogue websites that have figured out how to spawns/open another Firefox instance/window -- despite setting firefox to block this from happening.  Then these rogue websites hide this second window/instance behind other open programs on my screens, so if I forget to check the taskbar for multiple instances of Firefox, and just close my main firefox window, I've lost all my tabs.  This really makes me crazy.

[FixYourBrowser]

So will this ever actually be implemented or just ignored like most feedback platforms?

[Jon]

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[ayecuramba]

Yes this really is needed, like the new Tab Groups function in the latest Safari, whenever I use this I think how is it that Firefox does not have this function.  Would save a lot of resources, energy and enable customers to focus on just the work they wanted to do better.

[Luca_Pavan]

A way do this is pinning those tabs, when you in them next time that you open Firefox again they'll be automatically opened, a kind of hibernation mode. Perhaps now this isn't a problem, I actually see that when I close Firefox without pinning tabs they are anyway opened automatically again the next time that I open Firefox. Pinning feature now can be used as a way to mark your tabs where you've some work still in progress or you think that you'll need them again, a kind of Starred. I think that navigation cache is enough for saving resources, maybe one day Firefox will implement a smart webpages loading feature that uses cache to load webpages already visited instead of using network connection. You can activate Restrictive on Privacy and security settings so you block expensive content as cryptominers that consume much and if pages give you problems with some stuff you can temporarily disable the protection on the shield icon on address bar.

[heaversm]

Agreed. In the meantime there is the Session Sync add-on, which is amazing.

[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/

[skrs63]

Honestly a brilliant idea. This should come in handy when sourcing information for research papers for college or if I want to save everything work related in a named window to reopen at a later date. Hope they find a way to add this feature.  Now that I think about it, why not add functionality to cluster tabs into nameable groups? I could see this being more effective on the mobile side of things though. Just my two cents.

[pocale]

Came here for the same idea.Need to save a Window with all Tabs for later. Hope this feature will end up in a future version.

Although now i downloaded tha suggested Tab Session Mgr. Maybe it will fulfil my need.

Anyway thanks for the good work with Firefox.

[CactusKid]

Saving instances of multi-tabs is a high priority for me.  I often need to know what I was working on before, and being able to pull up a history of saved tabs would be a great boon for me.