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?
People have that many tabs open for the same reason people have full piss bottles next to their computers.
That is disgusting.
For what it’s worth, I never have less than hundreds of tabs across dozens of windows, and I don’t think I’ve ever pissed in a bottle.
Also, it’s not about bookmarks, I have a ton of those too - many of them with keywords for power querying.
I’m seeing a lot of excuses in this thread for their poor habit.