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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?

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yeah I don't get it, some people have 100s, dude that is what bookmarks are for.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I keep a huge pile of tabs open for things I need to keep an eye on but not necessarily interact with unless something changes. Bookmarks don’t have notifications, open tabs do.

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[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bookmarks are where projects go to die.

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[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most of my projects require like 2-4 web apps so i constantly have two browser windows open side by side, with a bunch tabs on each

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Some tabs are for ongoing things that I keep coming back to, though I don't have as many of those these days. Like back in the day, I'd have a facebook tab, a few reddit tabs, etc.

Other tabs are for things that I'm not done with in general but was done with for that moment because something else came up or I just wanted to do something else and the task wasn't urgent enough to stick with it.

Sometimes I get back to it, finish the task, and close the tab. Sometimes I'll later see the tab and just close it because I decide I am done with it forever (or done enough that I can find it again if I want to go back to it).

I like it better than not keeping my tabs. Though I did disable the inactive tabs thing on mobile firefox because those were too out of sight and just piled up (along with the ambiguous behaviour where sometimes backing up closes newly opened tabs, sometimes it doesn't, or I don't back up all the way). Mobile tabs feel a bit more like bookmarks, which are more likely to just disappear entirely from my mind. Visual tabs serve as reminders of the thing.

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[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 8 points 5 days ago (21 children)

They can't organise bookmarks

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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I can easily hit 30 tabs split roughly 5-10 tabs about the same topic and 3-5 topics going at the same time.

There is about a weeks lag time from moving on from one topic to closing the tabs.

I am never close to 100. I don't even think there are 100 interesting pages on the Internet.

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