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?

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    1·
    2 hours ago

    i use hundreds of tabs, have disabled desktop icons, and run inbox zero. i refuse to fit in your boxes!

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      60 minutes ago

      Okay, I was curious what Inbox Zero is, and I went ‘ew’ at the ‘ai’ angle, but then I fucking lost it when I got to the prices. They want $18 a month (per user) on the annual plan, to:

      • basically tags your email, which you can set up yourself using folders, and probably near identical through gmail or something
      • get ai replies written up for you… which I think gmail also does now
      • ‘blocks cold emails’ which is just the spam filter with a fresh coat of paint
      • ‘bulk unsubscibed / archive’… you can do that in most modern email clients? I guess not in bulk but how many shitty newsletters and promos do you subscribe to, really?
      • and an ‘analysis’ of your email…?

      I do everything except the ai replies through cpanel and my email client, for free. Fucking hell, that’s almost 3x what I pay for my web/email hosting. And I don’t have to prepay for a year of service, and I get way more granular control over incoming messages. That service is highway robbery, and they have 15k users?! What the actual fuck. $18 a year, kinda high, but a fucking month…