Save all your open tabs in a Firefox window

Written on April 9th, 2010 at 19:48 pm by chia

I have a habit of managing firefox tabs in different workspaces. I distribute workspaces according to my work. I have only 4 GB RAM, I know its a lot for most activites, but I still manage to overload my system  leading to firefox slowing down. So, I was forced to close down a few firefox windows. I hated that because I never get an option to save those tabs. And this might happen to you as well.

Suppose you want to go out for a nice evening walk and you want to save down the list of websites that were currently opened in firefox. Here are few ways that this article can save you:

1) Bookmark all Tabs - This will save all your current tabs in a folder which can be accessed from bookmark. Give it a more meaningful name "Read later" or "9th April". If you want to open all the tabs you can click on "open all in tabs" on that bookmark folder.


2) Session Manager - This is a popular way to save your tab. It will restore your windows and tabs in case of any system or browser crash. But if you are sharing computers with your friend or family members. You might have a risk of losing it, if someone else logged in before you do.

3) Send Tabs URls - This is an awesome add-on, this will send the list of all the current tabs in a mail, that can be send using your favourite desktop application.

4) Tab Saver - This is a light add-on that will help you save and restore tabs using keyboard shortcuts and you can easily restore the tabs that you were browsing in the previous session.

1 Comment

Anon Linuxer (not verified)
June 28th, 2010 08:33 am
There is another extension that you can use which will unload the memory used by your tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/ I've been using it for around a month now and it's pretty much perfect for me. I currently have 472 tabs open, and Firefox is only using ~500 megs of RAM.

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