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?
That being said. Do we want to go back to 30 windows? I don’t think so.
Floorp has additional features that keep you managed. Like Workspaces. And also you can group tabs. Or even use colored tabs.
Oh that sounds nice. I keep bumping into Floorp surprisingly often. Must be something worth checking out.
Anyway, alt+tabbing through a hundred windows just isn’t realistic, but scrolling through a hundred tabs is as long as you keep your tabs in a sidebar. Nowadays displays are also wide enough that there’s actually enough room for that sort of thing. Seems like a practical solution to me.
FF now has tab groups, it’s basically the same, and a nice easy to bridge bookmarks and tabs
yeah. I just don’t recommend Mozilla anymore. Do some searches online about the recent developments about Mozilla, “AI” and also bought an ad company: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/advertising/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/ (ps this is a marketing blog article of course… read between the lines)
Look… I will not use FF anymore. Hence I use a fork instead.