[whobar]

The author seems to wear his extreme disorganization as a badge of honor. Also from the article:

> having 500 tabs open in mobile Safari, which I always do, doesn’t hurt my system performance at all because the tabs are freeze-dried when I’m not using them.

When you have so many open tabs, there's no difference between a "freeze dried" tab, and just an entry in your browser's history. If your system performance on desktop is hurt by having 37 windows open, the solution is to just close all these windows. I guarantee you're not going to miss them.

[euroderf]

Well of course there's a difference between a "freeze dried" tab and an entry in the browser's history. The latter is just one line in an undifferentiated m(a|e)ss. The former is right in front of your face, one click away, maybe with an icon in view.

[CRConrad]

No. If you have 500 tabs open in any program, chances are the one you're interested in is not in view right in front of you just a single click away. There's, at a guess, a 95 percent chance[1] you'll have to scroll around and look for it. And if you're going to have to do that anyway, you can just as well do it in the browser history as among open tabs.

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1: It's probably not exactly the same in Safari / iOS, but gotta be the same ballpark: In Firefox / Android I can see fewer than ten tabs at a time. (Hm, that number must have shrunk in a recent update.)