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?
When I’m doing youtube research, I search for something, and open 10-20 tabs from the search results (ctrl+click). They don’t really fully open in the background, but when I switch to those tabs, that’s when they really starts loading. If I quickly flip through all 20 tabs, it’s going to max out my ancient CPU for a minute or two. Somehow 24 GB is still fine but the CPU seems to be the biggest bottle neck with my computer.
BTW I recall seeing something about tabs going to sleep automatically. If your browser does that, then the RAM shouldn’t be a problem. You could easily open a thousand pages, and only a fraction of them would actually be in RAM.
Anyway, 40 windows seems pretty intense. I don’t think I would enjoy doing that. Occasionally, when I have a lot of active topics, I just copy those URLs to a txt file to keep things organized. If I did that more frequently, I might try bookmarks too. Anyway, the point of doing that is to keep the window count down to something that I can easily manage.