I remember in the early days of browser innovation when “Tabs” was becoming the big thing. No longer were you confined to awkward windows cluttering your desktop. It was a productivity booster (“Cool, I can quickly compare two products!”), and distractor inhancement (“I’ll just keep me email open in this tab…”) all wrapped into one. “Productivity” and “distractions” are two of my favorite things, and so it makes sense I would love their love child “Tabs” immensely.

As time wore on and the novelty wore off, I found myself abusing tabs. Sometimes I would leave tabs opened for days, just chewing at my system memory. Coupled with memory leaks in older Firefox builds, my computer would grind to a halt quite frequently. I constantly found myself opening a bunch of tabs to “read later” and never going back to them.

Third party solutions such as Instapaper have filled the gap to a degree for me (especially in the mobile space). However it now looks like tabs are going to get some first party love with Firefox’s new vision.

I just counted. I have 17 tabs currently open. No one is more excited then me that Mozilla is innovating in this space then I am.

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