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?
And you just leave them? Do you ever get back to them? How about clicking the “close all tabs” button from time to time?
That button should be able to be turned off; is there a delete all button on your hard drive? No, that’s insane. Tabs are files. Tabs are life.
That’s interesting. Sounds like you don’t view tabs as a temporary thing. I guess they were initially designed to be very temporary, but apparently many people have started to use them in a very different way. Any ideas why?