[arrowsmith]

> How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?

Don't most people? I basically always do. And yes, I'm a techie, but anecdotally I see many non-techies with zillions of browser tabs open because they barely notice that tabs are even a feature and so they continually allow new ones to be opened without going back and closing anything.

[nurbl]

I have hundreds of open tabs in FF most of the time and rarely close them. I use it a bit like emacs; ignore the "tab bar" and use ctrl-tab (with browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed set to true) or tab search (with %) to jump between them. The only reason I need to clean up my tabs now and then is the RAM usage.

[wintermutestwin]

>The only reason I need to clean up my tabs now and then is the RAM usage.

Total Suspender extension is critical if you have lots of tabs open at once.

[lost_tourist]

Not really true any longer, almost all modern browsers will background (unload) tabs when you get more than N windows (or memory % consumption). I think you have to turn that behavior off if you don't want it via about:config chrome://flags

[wintermutestwin]

Of course they don't notice the tabs - once you get over ~8, you'd have to scroll to see them.

I can see 40 tabs with 40 characters of tab name in a single window (actually, I pin 3 rows of 8 tabs, which takes up 3 tab spaces, so I can see 24 pinned tabs and 37 full size)

[selykg]

My colleagues are not techies, at all. Their browser tab situation scares me.