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?
Today I tried a few tab management extensions, and I found OneTab.
You might want to look into that one. It just saves all the tabs into a list that looks and feels a bit like a vertical tab bar. Since none of the tabs are actually loaded, they don’t really take any more RAM than a line of text. This way, you never have to close any tabs again. Just condense all of with OneTab and you’ll always be able to find them later. The only downside is that they aren’t quite as visible as normal tabs.
tried em all. i hate onetab because it removes the tabs from my vision. i also used panorama when that was a thing and the same thing happened. tree style tab and a low setting for discard works best.