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Appreciate the response and links. Nice to see there's some work on this.

Re: #675539 I'd make unload happen _far_ faster. Within a few minutes, most likely, subject to some user testing to see what impacts/effects are shown. Rather than time the unload, I'd suggest limiting use to some number of active tabs (plus "pinned" tabs). Once that limit is exceeded, start unloading.

Resizable windows: the "Bookmark this link" dialog.

The history information isn't associated with bookmarks, and isn't presented with them. And while we're talking about history: Vimperators 'u' "un-close tab" feature is absolutely golden.

The bookmarks download feature is more a "sync", but _not_ to some named web service. I've always distrusted features such as this, especially where the mechanism isn't documented. Could just be me not knowing now the feature works.

Firefox is not library management software Honestly: I'm starting to think it should be. Or that if I found something that was it would replace FF for me (Chrome + Readability largely is given lists, tags, and responsiveness).

Re: un-closing tabs, right click on your tab bar choose it from there.

It took me ... a long time to find that. And I am much more keyboard-driven than mouse. Just being able to hit 'u' is awesome.

Other control keybindings often interfere with windowmanger bindings I've been using for well over a decade. The number of competing sets of controls when you start embedding viewers in apps in webpages in browsers in window managers is pretty bad.

What about ctrl+shift+T ?

Or I misunderstand what you're talking about.

I've got that hotkey mapped to another function in my window manager.

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