I'm very similar to you... i even made a webext to help me find tabs quickly as i will tend to open a window do something and then open up a few tabs in that window and eventually minimize the window to dock. if you have a hundred tabs open across many windows you come into a situation of where did that tab go? now it's just cmd-shift-e and visually scroll through the list of open tabs and then click on the link to bring it front and center.
might be useful to you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...
and open source too if someone feels like contributing: