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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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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I'm researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. Even then, if I get too many, and am frustrated in my search, I'll close them all in disgust and start over.

If it's something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It's very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.

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[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I keep tabs open so I can refer back to them when working on stuff or when I am planning things.

Right now I'm in the middle of house repairs on a former slumlord property. Will be installing 7.2KW of solar panels in a system that can island without causing issues. Need to rip and replace the back porch because the roof was rotten already and the floor is not much better. Trying to run and build a YouTube channel in the SCUBA diving niche. Planning for a dive trip to Cozumel in April so I can get more footage for said channel. And trying to start a non-profit that will support SCUBA training for teens and young adults who survived childhood abuse. While also running a website for the YouTube channel and the non-profit. All while dealing with life, family, a dog, and two vehicles. I do EVERYTHING with my own hands because I don't have cash to pay others to do it for me.

When I am preparing to make a purchase I also tend to have even more tabs open as I compare prices and costs for shipping among other things. The replacement materials for our roof was about 5K total for just under 3000sq ft of roof and I had to install venting that previously didn't exist. Just made the next to last purchase for solar and have 6500 invested and about 1000 left to go for the racking and a few miscellaneous things.

It takes a lot to remember everything so keeping tabs open is a huge stress reliever. Right now my desktop has about 80 tabs open and my tablet has 230.

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Idk it's crazy to see the browser windows of some teammates during screen share.

Read the thing, write down the relevant stuff / copy it to reference notes, bookmark it with raindrop or something that allows you to tag for context, close the whole browser.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

People have that many tabs open for the same reason people have full piss bottles next to their computers.

[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm seeing a lot of excuses in this thread for their poor habit.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 3 hours ago

Most people I know who do that use them as kinda bookmarks. Tbh, I do also sort of do this on my phone. I keep some tabs open with stuff I still wanted to check out. And every now and then I go through them and close the ones I don't need. But on PC I just close the whole session with all tabs when I'm done

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