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?

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    32·
    2 hours ago

    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

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        1 hour ago

        Bookmarks bar. It’s literally a toolbar under your URL bar that you can have displaying always.

        You can put folders on that bar (with no name if you want so it takes up almost no space) if you want.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      12·
      2 hours ago

      I guess these people just can’t be bothered to organize stuff. I find a bit puzzling that they prefer to live with chaos like that. I would feel very anxious and frustrated if I had to deal with a hundred tabs in a single window all the time.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        58 minutes ago

        I don’t even really have mine organized. I tried at one point, but meh…

        It’s still all there at the top of my browser, right under the URL bar, except they are all open tabs, because that’s not what tabs are for.

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          21·
          2 hours ago

          Maybe they have a superpower for staying calm even though everything around them is a total mess. I know I don’t have that power.

          • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 hour ago

            The whole entire world is a giant fucked up mess run by mentally handicapped billionaires. Shits fucking terrifying and we’re all cooked. Having a neat browser window isn’t going to fix that.

          • Unquote0270@programming.dev
            2·
            2 hours ago

            The point is that it may look like a mess to you but that doesn’t mean it is objectively a mess. Hundreds of open tabs can still have logic and organisation even if that is not obvious to you.