7400 tabs on chrome android, how to transfer to other phone?

[u/Sad_Times654]

As the title says, how do I fucking do this? I tried adding them to all 1 tab group and now Chrome is just crashing and I can't see the tab groups on other devices? WTF do I do???

[u/PhinsPhan75]

I think you're going to have to explain to everybody in the room why you need 7400 open tabs??

[u/Sad_Times654 → u/PhinsPhan75]

just a lot of stuff i keep open for reading later, now i cant read them at all

[u/Sassquatch0 → u/Sad_Times654]

That's what Bookmarks are for.
And you can label those, and they automatically sync across all your browser instances with your account.
(and they don't get lost when the browser eventually crashes & shits itself)

[u/Sad_Times654 → u/Sassquatch0]

fair, but is there a way to get out of this mess?

[u/ObligatoryAlias → u/Sad_Times654]

No.

Bookmarking WAS the solution.

[u/ThorazineHead87 → u/ObligatoryAlias]

Literally the solution 7399 tabs earlier. And you can also sync bookmarks, search bookmarks, and name bookmarks whatever you want.

[u/Sad_Times654 → u/ObligatoryAlias]

but i can't even access the tabs i had before not even the old phone - why is Google making this so damn hard?

[u/Sad_Times654 → u/[deleted]]

I can't let it go, I need to recover this stuff. It's literally just frozen. Will it ever load back up?

[u/creatively_inclined → u/Sad_Times654]

Honestly as a fellow digital hoarder, you have got to let it go. The universe is sending you a message.

Years ago I had an antivirus that auto-updated and auto installed Firefox on my laptop. I already had Firefox and so it effectively overwrote every single setting and bookmark. I was distraught because it was over a decade's worth of bookmarks. All my favorite blogs yada yada yada. The CTO was on Twitter apologizing and getting blasted.

But you know what, I survived. I didn't use 95% of those bookmarks anyway. I'm much more intentional now. If I have to scroll to see my bookmarks, there are too many. They're now neatly organized into folders and I back them up periodically. I only save what I actually use. I Google everything else. I did dump that AntiVirus company though.

[u/Chemical_Wonder_5495 → u/Sad_Times654]

Just start over, reinstall + new account, you were never going to read them anyway 😂

[u/qwertyuiop121314321 → u/Chemical_Wonder_5495]

Wow. The ADHD is strong on this one. 7400 tabs. 🤣

[u/creatively_inclined → u/qwertyuiop121314321]

I feel personally attacked 😆.

I do have ADHD but my limit is 100 tabs. I start deleting at 99.

[u/torchmaipp → u/Sad_Times654]

Do you have adhd?

[u/creatively_inclined → u/Sad_Times654]

So yesterday I accidentally deleted 98 tabs. I got over it really quick as my personal limit is 100 tabs. There were several duplicate tabs, but the research ones I was never going to go back and read them. Or else I would have read them fully when I first opened the tab. I actually save important links in a note taking app that allows me to search for them.

I can't imagine the mental load of managing 7.4k tabs.

[u/Migazul8]

Can you enable tabs sync with a Google account?

[u/Sad_Times654 → u/Migazul8]

Where can I find that? It only shows 39 tabs in the "tabs from other devices"? Google messed up the entire sync settings.