THANK YOU!! I have wanted to clean this up for a long time, but as you are well aware, when one ends up in this situation, there are no easy options to clean it up. In my case, it got so bad that I could not even open the tab navigation anymore because it would cause Chrome to freeze and eventually crash. I could use the browser just fine (with some delay to initially open the browser), it was just difficult to switch tabs. I could only swipe left or right on the address bar to move to the adjacent tab, being careful not to swipe down because this would open the tab browser and crash. I had no idea how many tabs were open, and I also had no way to close tabs (!) because this can only be done from within the tab browser (or the Chrome Remote API, as I just learned today). As it turns out, I had about 7700 tabs open! Now the URLs are safely stored in an Excel sheet where I can sort/organize/bookmark/etc.
I am actually kind of amazed how well Chrome for Android was able to cope with this situation even as it got so ridiculously out of control. I was afraid one day the tab set would get completely corrupted and everything would be wiped out. This never happened.
In contrast, my secondary (work) phone is an iPhone 7 and it was in a similar situation but far less severe (maybe 200 tabs open). When Chrome crashed there, upon re-opening Chrome after the crash, it displayed a message for about 3 seconds that said "Chrome had a problem. Restore tabs?". If you did not click that restore button within those 3 seconds, the tabs were unrecoverably lost. I'm sure that even if I wanted to, I would not have been able to do a trick like this on the iPhone to back up my tabs. It was a completely hopeless situation, and that experience reinforces my preference to never voluntarily use an Apple product.
Next on the todo list is to adjust my habits so I don't end up in this situation again. This was an incredibly helpful first step on the road to recovery :)
Yeah, once my accidentally vertical swipes turned into minutes of relaunching Chrome I started using Incognito tabs and bookmarking religiously. But I thought 732 tabs was a lot, and here you and the topic creator are pushing the multiple THOUSANDS! Color me impressed. And grateful to have found this guide!
Funnily enough, the much despised grid view Chrome pushed out actually helped me close more tabs in the past few months, since I could group them and then have subtabs with an accessible X button. And viewing the clustered groups actually worked better and didn't crash the app (as often).
But I concur, better browsing habits are a must for us digital hoarders.
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THANK YOU!! I have wanted to clean this up for a long time, but as you are well aware, when one ends up in this situation, there are no easy options to clean it up. In my case, it got so bad that I could not even open the tab navigation anymore because it would cause Chrome to freeze and eventually crash. I could use the browser just fine (with some delay to initially open the browser), it was just difficult to switch tabs. I could only swipe left or right on the address bar to move to the adjacent tab, being careful not to swipe down because this would open the tab browser and crash. I had no idea how many tabs were open, and I also had no way to close tabs (!) because this can only be done from within the tab browser (or the Chrome Remote API, as I just learned today). As it turns out, I had about 7700 tabs open! Now the URLs are safely stored in an Excel sheet where I can sort/organize/bookmark/etc.
I am actually kind of amazed how well Chrome for Android was able to cope with this situation even as it got so ridiculously out of control. I was afraid one day the tab set would get completely corrupted and everything would be wiped out. This never happened.
In contrast, my secondary (work) phone is an iPhone 7 and it was in a similar situation but far less severe (maybe 200 tabs open). When Chrome crashed there, upon re-opening Chrome after the crash, it displayed a message for about 3 seconds that said "Chrome had a problem. Restore tabs?". If you did not click that restore button within those 3 seconds, the tabs were unrecoverably lost. I'm sure that even if I wanted to, I would not have been able to do a trick like this on the iPhone to back up my tabs. It was a completely hopeless situation, and that experience reinforces my preference to never voluntarily use an Apple product.
Next on the todo list is to adjust my habits so I don't end up in this situation again. This was an incredibly helpful first step on the road to recovery :)
Yeah, once my accidentally vertical swipes turned into minutes of relaunching Chrome I started using Incognito tabs and bookmarking religiously. But I thought 732 tabs was a lot, and here you and the topic creator are pushing the multiple THOUSANDS! Color me impressed. And grateful to have found this guide!
Funnily enough, the much despised grid view Chrome pushed out actually helped me close more tabs in the past few months, since I could group them and then have subtabs with an accessible X button. And viewing the clustered groups actually worked better and didn't crash the app (as often).
But I concur, better browsing habits are a must for us digital hoarders.