How many tabs do you have open?

corsicanguppy, 6 months ago

5-6 per open project at work and other work, so, about a thousand.

Really about 50-80 in 20 windows because I’ve only just learned of tab groups.

IronKrill, 6 months ago

At current count, 911. I used to sit around 3000 but managed to shave it down, now it’s creeping back up.

Too many things I want to download or read later and not as much time as I used to have. I have been making an effort to use alternative methods though such as bookmarks, YouTube playlists, or just, you know, doing the thing in the moment.

ilinamorato, 6 months ago

On my personal Firefox, five pinned and usually 3-4 more. On my work Firefox, six pinned and 4-6 more in one window, and probably another 6-10 on a window in the other monitor.

If I can’t see at least part of the page title on each tab, I start feeling anxious. I do a lot of bookmarking, sending to Pocket, etc.

257m, 6 months ago

More than I can count thats for sure.

oxideseven, 6 months ago

Bare minimum is 7 cus they are pinned. These are tabs I reference constantly. 2 for monitoring servers, 2 for emails, 2 for chat, 1 for lofi girl.

After that it’s just based on the current project. So anywhere from 1 for browsing to 20 while doing research.

Add another 7 if you include my work computer for the various sites I work out of.

I try to close anything not currently used quite often and just store things in bookmarks.

sour, 6 months ago

4

if tab not relevant to task then am close

kratoz29, 6 months ago

What happens when you have more than 4 relevant tabs 🙃

sour, 6 months ago

am only close irrelevant ones

weeeeum, 6 months ago

It fluctuates as I’m researching a topic to me snapping out of it and realizing “damn that’s a lot of tabs” and closing pretty much all of them.

So it usually goes from around 30 or something, down to 3 or 5 and it repeats.

On my phone I do actually have 1,500 since my browser opens another one everytime I use search on the home screen

tun, 6 months ago

136

Most are unloaded. Using Firefox and sidebery on Linux with 32GB of RAM.

ctag, 6 months ago

I dig it. Thanks for the details!

stub, 6 months ago

Very similar 153 tabs currently, had to check with Tab Session Manager for the count. Linux with 32Gb Ram. Firefox gets restarted maybe every 2-4 weeks. Occasionally I kill a tab that takes more then 1Gb of memory.

tun, 6 months ago

I use Tab Counter Plus and put the number at the top of the sidebery sidebar.

pineapplelover, 6 months ago

My mindset is, I paid for 64GB of RAM, I’m gonna use all of it

rip_art_bell, 6 months ago

Personal: right now I have 6 open. I might get up to 15-20 if I’m going down a rabbithole of some sort.

On a side note, Windows 11 finally put in an option to go back to normal Windows taskbar buttons so I can actually read tab titles from the taskbar:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0b2641d-da88-46d7-8766-4820a8b3007c.png

Work (software engineer): sometimes dozens if I’m deep in the weeds with loads of reference pages open/etc.

vox, 6 months ago

am i the only person that prefers the combined labels?

vox, 6 months ago

one

tiredofsametab, 6 months ago

16, counting this one that I'm about to close.

intensely_human, 6 months ago

:)

sbv, 6 months ago

I use a browser extension that closes the least recently used tab after 15 minutes. It stops closing when it reaches five for the current window.

I don’t think I’m missing anything.

Kase, 6 months ago

That sounds cool! Do you have the name?

sbv, 6 months ago

Tab Wrangler

Kase, 6 months ago

Zero. Maybe it’s the OCD, but I never ever leave open a tab I’m not actively using, even if it means I open and close the same few tabs every five minutes for 8 hours every day.

Yeah, probably the ocd lmao.

Kolanaki, 6 months ago

I’m annoyed if I have more than 1 or 2 open.

Only time I open more is when I am downloading a big thing split into multiple files and I can only download a couple at a time due to the file host’s BS.