[JohnFen]

I really don't understand how people can stand using their browser in that way. The only time I ever have more than two tabs going is if I'm actively researching something -- and even then, I'll have multiple instances of the browser, each with 4-5 tabs, and at the end of my research session, they all get closed down.

But I don't think that people who have an insane number of tabs going are doing it wrong or anything. I'm just amazed that people find doing that to be useful.

[TillE]

For me at least, it's basically a substitute for a good bookmarking system. I want to get back to that tab eventually, but if I just bookmark it, it'll get lost in the churn and forgotten forever. I hope some day there will be a holy grail of bookmarking software which somehow solves this, but I don't even know what that would look like.

If I'm working on a specific project and find a great resource, I'll definitely paste the link in an Obsidian note and close the tab. But there's plenty of stuff which doesn't quite fit that workflow.

[deprecative]

I dunno dude, if you want to save the tab but it gets forgotten if you save it then it probably wasn't all that important. I'd argue that most folks that save tabs or thrive on tab bloat are doing themselves a major disservice and are overly invested in passing fancies rather than meaningful consumption they purport.

[melagonster]

sometimes I open 5 different documents for reading, and I still searching another help on stack overflow. It is easy to reach 10 Tabs on my browser:(

[deprecative]

Well, that's easy. You can't read 5 documents at once. Chat-GPT summarize four of them and read one. Easy.

Half joke aside, I think it's easy to get to 4-5 tabs depending on what you do but I don't understand tabs so small the favicon barely fits. That just seems like you've got psychological hoarding issues. You being general and not you-you strictly speaking.