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?


LOL. Can confirm. I have three tabs open every day just to have some basic stuff always open. I’m basically using Edge just for those three things and Firefox for everything else.
Turns out the Excel that was integrated into Teams can’t handle PowerQuery. I guess that’s just basically a website version of Excel and hence lacks 50% of the features of the real application. Isn’t it great now that everything is a website…