No Stupid Questions

I suspect they lack whatever visceral reaction makes me start to panic if I have more tabs open than fit neatly across the top of the browser.

I am reading a text and there's a link in it, that I want to follow up. But first I want to finish the text, so I open the link in the background.

I'm a tab-o-holic. I probably have ADD. I don't know but I'll start researching something and if I don't finish that research before moving on to something else or if the need for the research is postponed, I don't want to lose what I was doing.

Also there are sites I go to everyday, email, calendar, YouTube, so I just leave them up all of the time.

Somebody help me!!

I can’t even have 5 tabs open even if I try. I always close a tab when I am done with it.

So I don’t lose that one porn video I found 3 years ago.

People that don't know advanced ways to organise bookmarks.

Too stupid to use bookmarks.

Because people are overworked or overwhelmed, in my experience.

I noticed that people who are laid back and or relaxed for whatever reason, will close them.

On the other hand, people I know that regularly overwork themselves have a billion tabs open all the time.

They could also be tech illiterate I guess.

From some comments I've seen about this back on Reddit, it seems like some people don't know about bookmarks.

But also professionals, like a lot of Lemmings, tend to keep a lot of tabs open for references or other material they need to check often and quickly. Faster to leave tabs open than reopening the page every time you need to check something on it.

All those tabs open with telemetry tracking scripts and cookies that are designed to de-anonymize you. Those persons would be completely identified. I wonder how much spam they get a day.

I do for work because I usually have to recall information and don’t want to look it back up every time.

Pro tip: Auto-unloading the tabs (via extensions) certainly helps retain memory.

At about 10 I start questioning things. You'll either forget what the tab was about so it wasn't important, and if it is important, well, you found it somehow in the first place, you'll find it again.

"Close tabs to the right" and we're done.

For me, it more boils down to keeping my place within a web page or ever-updating feed.

For instance... If I'm going down a rabbit hole, I could have 4 root tabs open. Those tabs may have lengthy articles and would reference secondary sites throughout the page. Rather then having a good chance of the browser losing my place down the page by clicking on a link normally, I open it in a new tab. This allows me to switch to it, skim down to where it was referenced to understand that part of it, then switch back to the root tab while leaving the secondary tab open to fully read through when I finish with the root one. As the rabbit hole deepens, those secondary tabs may eventually become root tabs which may also reference their own secondary sites or even each other. The number of tabs just keeps growing until I either run out of those secondary tabs or I am just satisfied with the amount of info I gained. This can also happen over several days or weeks and have other rabbit holes open at the same time.

• because I'm working on multiple tasks at once, and some of those tasks require comparing things like data sheets or products or reading multiple documents

• because I don't want to dig up the thing I was looking at yesterday with a 10-tab group, but I also ran out of time yesterday to complete the task

• because I can and it's convenient

• because I keep something open until I have dealt with it, so it functions as a task list

At work? Every shit is a browser app now. Hard to organize.

I often have 2-3 windows open of ~30 tabs each.

It’s the floordrobe of internet management, small piles of shit when and where I need them scattered around.

Hah I once reached the ∞ on Firefox on my phone. It just stopped counting… 😅 Apparently you can configure Kagi to open a new tab when you click on one of the search results… (probably other search engines as well, but I don’t think they do that by default)