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
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    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.