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
    32·
    2 days ago

    It really doesn’t. There is literally a star next to the URL in the URL bar that you click once

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, but keeping them organized in sensible folders takes effort. If you just throw bookmarks into an enormous trash pile, it gets hard to find stuff. Some sites just have weird names and you can’t find them unless they’re sorted into reasonable folders.

      If you’re looking for color themes, you won’t find Paletton. If you’re looking for synonyms, you won’t find Visuwords. The list goes on and on.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        22·
        2 days ago

        You don’t need to keep them organized, mine certainly aren’t. Just throw them on the bookmarks bar and it will always be under your URL bar, just not in a freaking tab

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
          2·
          19 hours ago

          Unorganized bookmarks tend to be a lot less useful compared to open tabs once you do actually go back to them. I already organized my tabs when I opened them.

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, that should work too. What if you want to find that one article you almost read few months ago? Yes, that one about the history of cat memes. It’s in the bookmark pile, right? Is it still possible to find it today?