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?
They can’t organise bookmarks
For me it is not about being unable to organise them but once it is bookmarked it is basically gone from my sight and memory.
I am 33 years old (so not a new internet user) and I somehow feel bookmarks need a redesign… Not exactly sure how I’d improve it (tags, AI grouping? Daily bookmark to see section? I don’t really know) but if the site I have saved doesn’t show up in the FF search bar… It might as well be lost forever (and that feature is case sensitive).
AI tags could help. You still need to give them tags that are relevant to your intention, but an LLM can handle all the boring tags that are pretty obvious from the text itself.
Yep, same. I should research solutions to this problem with a bunch of new tabs.
In my case, bookmarking things is something I do to remove it from my sight and memory, but not lose it entirely.
This. If I spend the time organizing them, I’ve spent more time on the tab than I originally wanted to, but didn’t end up taking care of what the original reason I have the tab opened was.
That takes time and effort, which most people don’t have. Most links don’t deserve that much of my energy, so that’s why I have only a handful of sites bookmarked. Everything else is chucked in the infinitely growing trash pile known as “history”.
My bookmarks are organized. Haven’t used any of them in 10 years.
It’s a great idea that I like, it just doesn’t work for me.
Tabs in the sidebar do.