Option to auto close old tabs

Brave Feature Requests Android Requests
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The problem:
Tab management on the phone isn’t easy for me and for some people I’ve known. I create new tabs for any new browsing activity keeping recent past ones undisturbed for any potential future reference. This behavior leads to a pile up of tabs and whenever I notice a smiley “: D” in place of the number of tabs (which means >100), I just close them all at once.

Solution:
I often wished I had an option to auto delete tabs older than a month or so. The older the tab gets, the less relevant it is.

Benefits:
This will keep the browser cleaner and might use less battery and storage.

Points to note:

  • Age of the tab to be measured from the last time the user was on it, not from the time of tab creation.
  • If the tab clearing activity consumes any considerable battery power, consider performing the same while the phone is charging.
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This would be very useful (as someone who ends up with well over 100 tabs open and brave starts to glitch a little when switching tabs). I find most of the time I just want to do a quick search or bit of research into something and then don’t need those tabs again.

As a little extra, it would be great to have the option to ‘pin’ a tab to stop it from auto-closing. With this feature I would set auto-close to 1 day and then pin anything that I wanted to keep open to come back to later.