Bookmarks also have considerable management overhead if one wants to keep them usable, largely thanks to browser vendors having either phoned in the design of their bookmark managers or left them stuck in 1999. For some reason an Nth cosmetic toolbar redesign is more important than making bookmark management not terrible.

That's where you make a browser extension to dump your tabs before closing all

I save all of my open tabs into a folder.

But now there are built in ways to manage tab groups, which I haven’t used yet, but look neat.

This argument has never made any sense to me. Once you get past 30-40 tabs, all that appears on screen is just a series of icons, and repeating icons at that as most tab hoarders I've seen from screen sharing have multiple tabs of the same site open in random locations. Unless you have some sort of photographic memory, it's certainly much easier to bookmarks stuff and organize it than haphazardly scan through a long series of icons to find the right page.

I meant that for a modern machine 1500 is nowhere close to the maximum amount you can have before TLB misses (and later page faults) slow down the entire machine. If a machine with similar specs can't handle that many tabs, something is misconfigured. Eg maybe memory timings are way too conservative or the wrong power profile is in use.

0 unread replies on the sites I use regularly (HN, reddit, twitter, messenger) and 0 unread emails in the Primary tab on gmail.

I used to be inbox-zero in all gmail tabs a couple of years ago and I will be yet again some day. The main limitation I'm running into is that a lot of useless emails ("We're making some changes to our PayPal legal agreements") have unpredictable subject lines and are sent from the same address that sends useful emails. I already have hundreds of gmail filters that auto-archive useless emails with predictable addresses or subject lines ("Your statement is ready") that I can't unsubscribe from without closing the account. LLMs should solve this problem some day.

I do something similar, because I can. Why waste time organizing & pruning them when I don't need to? I can just search for open tabs that I need, jump to windows to resume sessions I was working on earlier, etc. At some point it gets too much and I use OneTab to save all my open tabs and start over.

I don't go quite that excessive, but you can keep various projects and activities tracked pretty well. Instead of regretting closing a few stackoverflow pages (which will be a nightmare to search for even with local history) you can leave up the useful ones, so you don't lose them, and close it all once the current task / project is no longer needing them.

I used to make fun of people who hoarded them, but honestly sometimes just keeping that one tab open until you've exhausted its use is worth it.

Each project has its own window. Ctrl+tab moves down the call stack and ctrl+shift+tab moves up the call stack. Exploring a topic often requires depth first search and a lot of ctrl+w and clicking "close tabs to the right" after researching subtopics. I've used this approach for over a decade and I've always been able to upgrade my machine fast enough to keep up.

Of course I also use ctrl+e (QuickTabs) to jump faster with intellij-like fuzzy search. It's kinda like Chrome's built-in ctrl+shift+a, except better.

Bragging rights.

My Windows 9x brain opens as many Netscape/Opera/MSIE windows as I want till 'it' crashes. Nowadays swapping heavily just slows down the machine.

1) Why so judgmental?

2) As somebody with ADHD, there's an unacceptable level of mental overhead required for organizing things. I simply don't have any spare bandwidth to add organizing tabs into bookmarks and organizing bookmarks or whatever else into my daily functioning as a human being. It has nothing to do with feeling rewarded.

I don’t think it deserves that much armchair psychology. I was joking.