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?
I always mean to go back to them but never do. It’s usually something that is not quite important enough to bookmark. At some point they reach critical mass and I lose the whole session. Tab savers mitigate this, however. Funny thing is, I never used to be a tab guy - I always just opened new pages.
Do tabs use less memory or something? Are they more system resource efficient overall?
Some article may seem interesting, important and urgent today, but if you just save that link for later, it can feel very liberating. Usually, there’s no real urgency to actually read it today. If you get back to it a week later, you’ll probably realize it wasn’t that useful after all, and end up deleting the link immediately.