Hazel, who prefers not to share her last name, is what you'd call a hardcore Firefox fan and self-proclaimed "tab hoarder." She recently posted a screenshot showing...

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A software engineer, Hazel, managed to keep 7,470 Firefox tabs open simultaneously, demonstrating Firefox's memory efficiency. Despite some initial trouble in restoring the tabs, Firefox's profile cache functionality allowed her to recover them. Mozilla confirmed that having numerous tabs open consumes minimal memory. Upcoming features and third-party add-ons aim to improve tab management further.

Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years

“Hazel, who prefers not to share her last name, is what you’d call a hardcore Firefox fan and self-proclaimed “tab hoarder.” She recently posted a screenshot showing a mind-boggling 7,470 tabs open simultaneously in the Mozilla browser. Turns out, Firefox had some trouble restoring the gargantuan tab load initially, but Hazel was able to revive the vast digital collection via the browser’s profile cache functionality.”

I hope they will also improve performance some day

if only the browser was actually fast

The Sidebery extension is really great for such things.

It does not make any sense to have 7500 tabs opened in first place. With the speed webs come and go half of those will be 404 when she gets to them again. Whats the point of this … yeah right, it should be an ad for ff …