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At that point isn't it better to just set up some bookmarks? Navigating 700 tabs is much harder than navigating a hierarchical bookmark list.

Personally I only keep open tabs that I am actively working in, if I have more than ~15 I get less productive since I have to hunt through to fine the one I need. Several times a day I just clear out all my tabs aside from a couple pinned ones.

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I find the interface for Bookmarks sucks also. 'Show all Bookmarks' presents a clumsy floating window you need to arrange with your browser window and is useless for batch operations. You can do 'Show Sidebars' but pressing delete on a selected Bookmark doesn't do the obvious thing of deleteing a bookmark. Its quite cumbersome to right click -> context menu -> delete when you're pruning dozens, hundreds of things.

Bookmarks discard window layout, scroll bar position, back/forward history, form contents, etc. They don't stay in sync with tabs so you have to delete and recreate them.

I wonder if you could serialize all that, and make a new "Enhanced Bookmark" Actually, that would be a really cool directory service.

I kinda think there should be no distinction between tab and bookmark. Just give me tools to suspend old tabs into bookmarks.

I bookmark all tabs with CTRL-SHIFT-D then arrange the hierarchy manually in bookmark manager. Doesn't automatically do it all, but keeps me involved with my bookmark trees.

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