Poll HN: How many browser tabs do you have open?

7 points·ivewonyoung··7 comments

After seeing the story "Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing" I got curious about how many open tabs people have.

I have 990 tabs open in Chrome right now.

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ATM, I have 220 in my pc, another 200 in my laptop, and 100+ in my phone. But a few weeks ago, I deleted arch from my pc, and I had firefox with ~1500 and floorp with more or less the same, altough distributed in several workspaces. I spent a lot of time closing tabs. My problem is that I use tabs both for current work and for saving ideas/things, so I had to go through all the tabs, adding it to pocket when it deserved.

6, including this thread.

at worst ive never got more than a couple dozen open, that'd be references for a thing under hand and close those windows at the end of the day.

what possible advantage is there to having more tabs than that? Have you no bookmarks? I dont get the thinking; people differ and whatever works for you is great... i dont see it tho.

Could it help to age tabs out? Anything that hasn't been focused in say 6hr vanishes and leaves a bookmark in a "never came back" list, perhaps?

For those who have high numbers, how many of those tabs did you use today? How many did you use this week? Does the clutter flow over into other areas of your life?

I never got into leaving tabs open. I know why people do it, but I'd rather read something and be done with it instead of having it floating around forever.

I open tabs whenever I want to explore something and as a perfectionist and detail oriented I end up exploring the rabbit holes

3. Two pinned tabs (slack and mastodon) and this thread.

Right now only two (one of which is this one). I have more xterm windows than browser tabs.

(Like what I have now, I usually have more xterm windows than browser tabs at other times, too.)

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