I'm really curious about the workflow you have that needs that many tabs. How does the History and Bookmark functions fall short of what you need?

It’s easier to use google than the bookmarks manager, which can’t even find text inside the pages. I do often dump all those thousands of tabs into a bookmarks folder. And it has never happened that I went back into that enormous pile to fetch something that would take hours to find again. I have no use for the history either. A gigantic, alphabetic ordered list of everything I have seen in the last 7 days. Again, easier to just use google.

The one thing that is better and faster than google, is not closing those tabs that may contain the stuff I need.

Of course, it’s not really possible to search the text body of open tabs, unless you search them one by one.

But I’m going to ask for only one computing miracle at a time !

What I’d recommend, based on the insistence that seeing to not change your workflow, is to locally download the pages you have open with httrack, wget or a similar application. This would allow you to locally search all your tabs and their contents very quickly without Google, they will load faster because of lack of needing to redownload them, which if I understand correctly Firefox is trying to do at some level.

Thanks, I didn’t know that one.

I have been experiementing with a transparent proxy like squid or something like Archive Box, to create static pages on the fly and load that.

But so far I’ve not made something seamless and pleasant to use. It would have to be at least as low friction as using google.

I am going to try using Mixtral 8x7b to perform natural language search over my archives and pull tabs from the collection of all pages I have ever seen. But that’s still a long way away from being operational !