To me it's the opposite! I'm a tab hoarder. A tab bar like ||||||||||||||||||| is unusable, but Firefox's approach scales infinitely (and I'm on track to have inifinity+1 tabs open)
When I get to ||||||||||||||||||| situation, I just close the browser and start fresh and then type in sites I had opened if I remember any. I am left with just a few really important to me at the time and I find this less distracting.