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by chriswarbo 2667 days ago
Not sure which browser you use, but I only open new tabs "on demand". This is in Conkeror, where the command `find-url-new-buffer` (bound to `C-u g`) will ask for a URL then open the new tab on that URL. Perhaps there are options or addons to do this in other browsers?

This way I can have a CI dashboard as my homepage, but I only see it when I switch to it explicitly or when I close the last of my other tabs. Also, Conkeror doesn't have actual "tabs" in its UI: like Emacs, the open tabs ("buffers") are only listed after running the `switch-to-buffer` command (`C-x b`); so there's less distraction there too.