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 used to use bookmarks (at home). Now I just keep tabs open.
Any ideas why though? Is it just because it’s easier, it’s a visible reminder or something like that?
I think for me, personally, I bookmark sites at work I need to access regularly. As in, daily. At home, I don’t really visit the same sites. Or at least, it’s more infrequent, and fewer ones. So I just leave open a tab for Lemmy, Metacritic, HotLocalDwarfMilfs, Wikipedia, Spotify, etc. Even if my computer is restarted, Firefox saves them!
But that’s only a handful of sites, which is fine and totally manageable. Not hundreds, like some people have all the time