No Stupid Questions

I keep tabs open so I can refer back to them when working on stuff or when I am planning things.

Right now I'm in the middle of house repairs on a former slumlord property. Will be installing 7.2KW of solar panels in a system that can island without causing issues. Need to rip and replace the back porch because the roof was rotten already and the floor is not much better. Trying to run and build a YouTube channel in the SCUBA diving niche. Planning for a dive trip to Cozumel in April so I can get more footage for said channel. And trying to start a non-profit that will support SCUBA training for teens and young adults who survived childhood abuse. While also running a website for the YouTube channel and the non-profit. All while dealing with life, family, a dog, and two vehicles. I do EVERYTHING with my own hands because I don't have cash to pay others to do it for me.

When I am preparing to make a purchase I also tend to have even more tabs open as I compare prices and costs for shipping among other things. The replacement materials for our roof was about 5K total for just under 3000sq ft of roof and I had to install venting that previously didn't exist. Just made the next to last purchase for solar and have 6500 invested and about 1000 left to go for the racking and a few miscellaneous things.

It takes a lot to remember everything so keeping tabs open is a huge stress reliever. Right now my desktop has about 80 tabs open and my tablet has 230.

I easily hit 500+ tabs, usually against 1000 or so, and usually spread around over 40 windows on 4 different desktops, so it's fairly wellp organized as all tabs in a window are about the same subject.

Most auto close after about 15 mins to spare resources because websites these days just are insanely heavy. I used to do 2000 sites with maybe 32GB mem, now I need a tab auto closer to be able to manage half of that.

In many cases are issues to keep dealing with later after the current urgency is solved, is faster and more effective than trying to register the progress somewhere and save it for later... eventually some fell out forever and just accumulate, also start cleaning/clossing often reveal sooner than later something pending and the maintenance stops abruptly there

because i forget to close useless ones.

I can almost never find things in my browser history. I keep windows with relevant tabs open on separate workspaces.

Bad parenting

The weirdest thing to me is how some people brag about how many tabs they have open as if it’s a competition. Like, it shouldn’t be a point of pride, it just shows you don’t know how to use bookmarks.

I think it’s closely related to people with tens of thousands of emails in their inbox, and people who keep all their files on their desktop. Some people just live in chaos.

Because they hadn't heard of this feature called bookmarks

My friend has ADHD and 300 tabs. I'm pretty sure they are related.

For me, it's because of ADHD.

To combat this I installed 128GB of the fastest ram I could afford.

My computer still lags out after a week of never closing any tabs.

Because, shockingly, not everyone sees the world the way you do.

Why do people consider the way others do things as flawed, or pathologize the behaviours of others?

Also, browser history is awful.

I am surprised by all the ADHD responses. I have ADHD and being able to see all the tabs I'm not using makes me anxious. I have to close them. If I really need them, I move them to a separate window and pretend it's not there.