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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?

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hard to explain that tab I've had open for 8 months for something I've been meaning to read.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Rookie numbers

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago

CGP grey once spoke about those links on Cortex.

Instead of reading everything that seems important and interesting today, he just saves those links and gets back to them later. A few weeks later, he just ends up deleting most of that stuff anyway, because it wasn’t actually all that important.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like actual to-do list and actual read-it-later thing would be better for those. Or just bookmarks

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

I have those too…

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox has that pocket thing. Could be worth a try.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

RIP Pocket. I did use it for a time before it was killed, but I had moved to self-hosted solution (readeck) prior to it being killed.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh it died already? Haven’t been following the news on that. I just couldn’t figure out what it’s good for, so I simply ignored it.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

It was around for a long time but pretty recently Mozilla decided to kill it

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough, for that purpose I use either an actual list, or bookmarks.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh, I have those too!