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j16sdiz • today at 4:31 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It would cause more tabs to be open.

You can't use the old tab because all the plants. You open a new tab for the same page. Don't need to close any old tab for that.


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baxtr • today at 5:43 AM

Pro talking here…

Razengan • today at 5:57 AM

Seems like we're recognizing something that people actually want: The assurance that their state will be preserved

versus what the operating system or browser can provide.

In fact, weren't bookmarks supposed to solve EXACTLY this? You'd just bookmark a website on any page then come back to it any time in the future.

But then websites wanted to be apps and stopped storing state in the URL...

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