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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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I can easily hit 30 tabs split roughly 5-10 tabs about the same topic and 3-5 topics going at the same time.

There is about a weeks lag time from moving on from one topic to closing the tabs.

I am never close to 100. I don't even think there are 100 interesting pages on the Internet.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Ok, so you have a lot of stuff going on, which is fine. You’re also keeping it under control, so the numbers never get totally crazy.

    That’s not at all what I see some other people doing. They have like hundreds of tabs open all the time, and I have no idea if there’s any method to that madness.

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