Imagine you start researching something else before you've had the opportunity to finish your last. I have 10-20 tabs open for each of several in progress projects on my tablet
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They use to be new window (not like a pop up, but a new window). Today every new page or "new window" becomes a new tab.
And before you know it, you have dozens of tabs open. But no way you use to have 30 different windows open, since that would drive you crazy with alt+tab.
So the bar is low and it's easy to keep them open as well. So people will.
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I have 2 or 3 open at once at most. If I can't remember what it's for, it gets closed. And if I need to find it again, searching my history is easier than searching my open tabs
I just can't handle tab frenzy
"i wonder what that article said about the thing i was thinking of. what was the article about again? ...what site was it?"
anyway, ask me about my 400 open tabs
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People have that many tabs open for the same reason people have full piss bottles next to their computers.
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All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It's very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.
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I regularly filter out tabs on laptop, bookmarking things and closing stuff that isn't on todo list for the next 24h.
Mobile though, clicling that through UI takes so much time I can't be bothered. I just open new stuff on top, and maybe sometimes go through tabs like as if that's browser history.
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