Woman Shocked After 7,500 Internet Tabs She Opened Over 2 Years Crash

Too many open browser tabs present a different kind of existential crisis, and all business employees are all too aware of this problem. All we do is turn in and try to shut them down after complaining to a coworker. But for a woman, simply closing the tabs was no solution. She left 7,470 tabs open on her Firefox browser and panicked the moment she lost them, hoping to find a way to get them back. But everyone reading this probably knows how the unfortunate tabs are gone for good. The question remains: why and how did this professional manage to get to this point? Read on to find out what happened.

Who is the woman who left 7,470 browser tabs open?

How did the software engineer with 7,470 open browser tabs get to this point? | Image: datechips/representational

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User X @sodiumPen certainly attracted attention with his tweet. She told how the 7,470 tabs she had open on Firefox over two years suddenly crashed. A software engineer, Hazel had no choice but to turn to the internet for help. “Firefox refused to restore my session which I have been using for over 2 years… over 7,000 tabs lost…” she wrote in a tweet that has been viewed 5.1 million times .

What happened next ?

She turned to the Internet for help | Image: X/SodiumPen

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According to her subsequent tweets, she finally got the help she needed, but the internet was in complete disbelief. “Thank you to everyone who provided information on how to restore an old session from the profile cache… it feels like a part of me is being restored,” she wrote.

What happened next ? “The session file that contains the tab information is only about 70MB, and Firefox only loads a tab into memory if I’ve opened it recently,” Hazel explained. Luckily for her, it took “no more than a minute” to restore all 7,470 web pages, Hazel revealed.

A Mozilla representative also reportedly said that Firefox requires “virtually no memory.” “We’ve worked hard on Firefox performance over the past few years and we’re happy to see the results of those efforts come to fruition.”

How did the Internet react?

Luckily for Hazel, the tabs were restored within a minute | Image: Unsplash

“Looks like this was a much-needed intervention,” one user joked. “Hearing that volume of tablature gave me crazy anxiety,” admitted another. “At this point with these numbers you kind of needed this as a lesson,” said a third user. “You’ve never heard of bookmarks?” » asked a fourth.

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