> Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users?
Not that I'm aware of, but there might be a support group. ;)
Joking aside, it's curious how much flak you can take from suggesting that you make extensive use of a feature that's built into the browser... everyone I know thinks I'm a bit odd when they see my Firefox sessions.
> For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks.
I really like this perspective, because it's deeply reflective of my usage patterns. For example, when I was learning Golang, I had a session opened exclusively for that, with all the respective documentation, some blogs, tutorials, and various odds and ends. Over time it evolved, certainly, but those tabs remained open for the duration that I needed them. It doesn't matter if it's a day, two days, or two months.
I have one Firefox profile configured to use Session Manager with various saved sessions based on whatever I'm working on. So, whenever I need a major context switch, I save the current session, then switch to the one I need. It allows me to pick up where I left off--even if there's 300+ tabs in that particular list. Though, I'm pretty bad about clearing some of those tabs out--oftentimes it's because I want to revisit whatever I was researching, even if it takes several months!
It sounds like you and I do about the same thing in that regard! Although, I've yet to learn the bookmarking technique. ;) Presently, for my generic browsing, I just dump everything into a dated folder. Everything else of interest that I don't want to inadvertently lose gets shunted into my unsorted bookmarks without a date under the pretense that I'll eventually categorize it (which I usually do). I think I'll have to try the categorization for tasks that are complete rather than simply bookmarking tabs individually and massacring the rest.