[capableweb]

> Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander

I guess you could call me a "tab hoarder", I commonly have 50+ tabs open for the various topics and contexts I'm browsing and switching between. I usually also always restore my previous session from the day before, so some of the tabs are 2 weeks old but I have yet to finish the thing they're related to, so they stay up.

Compared to other applications that I close/open without restoring the previous context. I guess the terminal/tmux is the one that has the most context, and there I usually have 5-10 tabs open at any given time, for the same reason as above. And then I do use a manager of sorts (tmux), but for all the rest, I'm just opening/closing things as needed.

[eddd-ddde]

I tried it once but i dont function like that. Every couple of minutes I just spam ctrl+w to reset my mind off and i start again and repeat.

[capableweb]

That's fine, everyone works differently, both in our heads and with our workflows, and that's why we have different solutions, no silver bullets and yadda yadda :)