[hinkley]

At work I have five tabs open just for the story I’m working on. Five more for our telemetry monitoring. Researching an API issue can easily be another five, and when I find the solution I may discover I’m wrong and then have to remember which pages in my history are involved, or I can leave them open until I’m deployed cleanly in preprod. It can be hours or days before I notice the extra tabs and close them.

And then a couple times a day I’ll open a bunch of threads in HN to read over the next few hours between other things.

Anything researching for a hobby can reach 10 tabs easily, though that usually happens “at home” so replaces rather than supplements the work tab count. And now we’re already at a few dozen tabs.

Having three monitors and other apps running you can “lose” a window and thus end up with the same site open in two or three windows. 50 tabs is usually about when I start garbage collecting, and I always manage to close something I still needed.