[nnethercote]

It's a very common observation that Chrome can't handle more than a few 10s of tabs.

In comparison, I know several people who regularly have more than 500 tabs open in Firefox -- 1200 is the highest number I've heard, though not all of these were loaded at once thanks to Firefox's "Don't load tabs until selected" option.

[groby_b]

500 open tabs? Good lord, I don't have that many bookmarks!

I'm really curious, why would one do that?

[shitlord]

I've had a little over a hundred open at one point... I go browsing on HN and reddit a lot. I click on a bunch of different links to open in new tabs, and once the tabs start overflowing, I move them to different tab groups, and eventually and forget about them. Since I usually close my browser when I am done browsing and reopen it when I want to browse again, it does not make much of a difference in terms of snappiness.