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?
To some extent, I do that as well. However, in my case, it’s not hundreds of tabs. More like 5 sites that I reference frequently enough to keep them open most of the time. I also have bookmarks for the same sites so I can quickly open them when I need to.
However, what I’m really curious about is the people who have hundreds of tabs open all the time. What kind of workflow is that how does it work?