<story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>How??? I&amp;#x27;ve never understood how people can have that many tabs open and it be useful at all. At that point the information overload is too much. I have at most 10 open, and close them as I&amp;#x27;m done with them. Helps reduce cognitive load.</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just tabs as bookmarks. I can build up a stack of 100 tabs in a day easily.</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>There are a lot of people who use tabs as bookmarks.  Seems like a good way to keep the RAM industry going strong.  Someone once told me (seriously) &amp;quot;I need at least 128 GB of RAM otherwise I can&amp;#x27;t keep my tabs open.&amp;quot; But does everything you were interested in over the last X weeks or months really need to be loaded up? No, and if you use it like that then it can&amp;#x27;t preload stuff.&lt;p&gt;I think the main lesson is that bookmarks don&amp;#x27;t work too well or people just don&amp;#x27;t use them.  If nothing else, make the bookmark display show newer bookmarks rather than the same old ones from four years ago.  And maybe start preloading if they are opened regularly.  Merge two features together, maybe add optional other organizational features for example similar to new tab screen.&lt;p&gt;The tricky thing is that there are a lot of things that are potentially supposed to happen while a tab is open.  The browser is now it&amp;#x27;s own OS, and it may be very difficult for developers to use important features if tabs (processes) only _look_ like they are running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>white-flame</author><text>I open almost every link in new tabs.  It&amp;#x27;s faster to close a tab and return to the prior tab than it is to go Back, and the back button often doesn&amp;#x27;t work with dynamic pages.  Plus, when replying in various forums, it&amp;#x27;s much easier to flip between tabs to refer to stuff that was said upthread, especially when you have to go back a page or two.&lt;p&gt;Neither the back button nor bookmarks retain state sufficiently or have sufficient responsiveness to replace open tabs.</text></comment>
<story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vocatus_gate</author><text>How??? I&amp;#x27;ve never understood how people can have that many tabs open and it be useful at all. At that point the information overload is too much. I have at most 10 open, and close them as I&amp;#x27;m done with them. Helps reduce cognitive load.</text></item><item><author>Macha</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just tabs as bookmarks. I can build up a stack of 100 tabs in a day easily.</text></item><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>There are a lot of people who use tabs as bookmarks.  Seems like a good way to keep the RAM industry going strong.  Someone once told me (seriously) &amp;quot;I need at least 128 GB of RAM otherwise I can&amp;#x27;t keep my tabs open.&amp;quot; But does everything you were interested in over the last X weeks or months really need to be loaded up? No, and if you use it like that then it can&amp;#x27;t preload stuff.&lt;p&gt;I think the main lesson is that bookmarks don&amp;#x27;t work too well or people just don&amp;#x27;t use them.  If nothing else, make the bookmark display show newer bookmarks rather than the same old ones from four years ago.  And maybe start preloading if they are opened regularly.  Merge two features together, maybe add optional other organizational features for example similar to new tab screen.&lt;p&gt;The tricky thing is that there are a lot of things that are potentially supposed to happen while a tab is open.  The browser is now it&amp;#x27;s own OS, and it may be very difficult for developers to use important features if tabs (processes) only _look_ like they are running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavanky</author><text>Also looking up what you want when you have dozens &amp;#x2F;  hundreds of tabs open is no better than going through your history browsing history. In fact going through your browsing history may be faster because you can actually use key words to search for what you want.&lt;p&gt;I have 2-3 tabs open most of the time. If I am looking something up, I go to 10-12. When I am done, it goes back down to 2-3. I can&amp;#x27;t even fathom under what situation people are using hundreds of tabs.</text></comment>