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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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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They use to be new window (not like a pop up, but a new window). Today every new page or "new window" becomes a new tab.

And before you know it, you have dozens of tabs open. But no way you use to have 30 different windows open, since that would drive you crazy with alt+tab.

So the bar is low and it's easy to keep them open as well. So people will.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That being said. Do we want to go back to 30 windows? I don't think so.

Floorp has additional features that keep you managed. Like Workspaces. And also you can group tabs. Or even use colored tabs.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh that sounds nice. I keep bumping into Floorp surprisingly often. Must be something worth checking out.

Anyway, alt+tabbing through a hundred windows just isn’t realistic, but scrolling through a hundred tabs is as long as you keep your tabs in a sidebar. Nowadays displays are also wide enough that there’s actually enough room for that sort of thing. Seems like a practical solution to me.

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[–] hexdream@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder the same about people with hundreds of unread emails. Almost as if they don't know that you can unsubscribe from newsletters.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I go through and unsub to stuff, but some keep coming back. Then I make a filter to delete them when they come.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

When your inbox is a mess, email stops working for you. It’s impossible to find anything worth reading, so you end up reading nothing.

Same with notifications. If you allow all of them, it’s functionally the same as disabling the whole notification system.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking at what I have now, it's a mix of tasks I don't want to forget to do, a long article I was reading but felt i wasn't absorbing, some fanfic I am probably going to read in the next couple days plus the rec list I got them from, a podcast I'm still midway through for when I'm driving, an article for a work thing I'll need tomorrow, a couple dnd race pages open as I'm making a character for a new campaign, and two bsky people who post interesting articles on the daily so I read them daily. Some stuff is bookmarked, but if I'm using it in the next week, it stays in tabs.

They all get closed when I'm done with them, but new things get rotated in. I'm at my max now, but it's rare I have under five open. It's a to-do list, basically, and there are always new things to do, and read, and think about, and learn. Bookmarks are for when I want to save a link to look at much later. Like, webcomics I've caught up with, artists I like, utility pages, resources, etc.

I used to be "worse" because I had fun in the early 00s generating link lists for character fan pages. It involved opening every relevant link on an already vetted and tagged page, and then checking each one (and opening pages from their links if they turned out to be relevant). When I finished a character, I'd start on the next, so I'd have one or two hundred open most of the time. I lost interest, eventually. The impulse to link to relevant topics still exists in me, however, which is a big reason I'm on this website.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That sounds like all of them are actually more or less active. It’s not like vast majority of them are neglected and forgotten.

Maybe you’re some sort of a power user who just needs a lot of tabs to get stuff done. I don’t see any problem with that. Since you also use bookmarks, you’re effectively controlling the chaos. That doesn’t look anything like the chaotic mess I’ve seen with some other people.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just checked and I've got 24 tabs open right now. Basically in my case I have a list of things I'd want to do at any given moment (chat on Whatsapp, watch anime, learn Chinese, etc), so each one gets its own tab group with things I'd usually want for the thing in question easily accessible. For example in my anime tab group I have My Anime List, two tabs with different anime and Reddit discussion threads. Also in my defense I'm looking for an oven right now so that's inflating my tab numbers a little.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

Do none of these people know about the bookmarks bar? And that you can literally put folders on it if you want?

What do you mean they're not visible, of course they are

[–] Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I'm never actually going to look in the bookmarks folder so why would I put anything there?

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[–] url@feddit.fr 2 points 22 hours ago

No idea. I close tabs as soon as I'm done. Also private tab by default 

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The only instances of this I have seen (on mobile) were not very tech-savvy people who click links in messages and apps, rarely open the browser, and/or don't understand how to use the browser to begin with.

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