How can I quickly "unclog" firefox when it runs out of memory (with 1000/2000 tabs)

https://lemmy.ml/post/16965449

geez, just press Ctrl+W when you’re done with a tab, or if the tab is older than a couple hours

I don’t understand why some are so attached to tabs. Search your history if you need it again.

I tried closing tabs, I have to finish reading them, make sure I got everything and that whatever reason I had for opening that tab was done. The result is that I spend all most all my time trying to close and sort and order tabs instead of doing what I was trying to do in the first place. And then the browser freezes for 10 minutes.

Something is very wrong that 64GB is nowhere near enough to handle a few megabytes of text. And searching text inside of all tabs is an unthinkably difficult operation ?

Where did the web go wrong !?

It’s not the web it’s you dude. You’re not using the software the way it’s intended to be used. There is no reason at all to ever need 1000+ tabs open.