I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.
When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.
Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?
This is incredible what you do ! I also saves some webpage thata are important to me, but still have the URL saved in my booksmarks, as duplicate entry if you like.
Because they are important, I have an organised collection of bookmarks which can be saved and archived outside the browser. A bookmark list is just a structured html page that any browser can export, import and share, unlike tabs. I have lot of themed bookmarks folder, for the future.
With so much work to organise your tabs, why make you not use bookmarks instead ? Do you have a lot of RAM and SSD on your computer to save all your tabs ? Your browser needs to keep a copy in RAM for you. The more tabs, the slower your browser runs.