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?

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    3 days ago

    People have that many tabs open for the same reason people have full piss bottles next to their computers.

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      3 days ago

      That is disgusting.

      For what it’s worth, I never have less than hundreds of tabs across dozens of windows, and I don’t think I’ve ever pissed in a bottle.

      Also, it’s not about bookmarks, I have a ton of those too - many of them with keywords for power querying.

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        3 days ago

        I never said you had any piss bottles I’m saying people keep tabs open that much for the same reason people have piss bottles.

        You’re just messy disorganized and lazy 🤷