HACKER Q&A
📣 vladstudio

How many browser tabs you have open?


How many browser tabs you have open?


  👤 tconfrey Accepted Answer ✓
3 pinned tabs with my emails and calendar plus 8 or ten working tabs that cycle in and out quickly.

In addition to making things hard to find and bogging down your machine, tabs impose a cognitive load. Thats one of the reasons I'm building BrainTool. If you suffer tabs overload it might be worth checking out. Here's a recent post/video on Browser Hygiene:

https://braintool.org/2021/12/08/Clean-up-your-tabs-with-Bra...


👤 perihelions
90 (Firefox -release, one window).

(Does Mozilla publish statistics for this? 'max_concurrent_tab_count' is a telemetry metric..)

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/BrowserUsage...

about:telemetry#scalars-tab


👤 mikewarot
2 - I get itchy when I go more than 5... if I'm digging into something, I save them all in a Bookmark folder.

I don't understand why people store email in their deleted folders, or why they keep hundreds of tabs open. There are better ways to store data.


👤 PaulHoule
2 on my iPad right now.

As few as possible on my PC. I look things up in history all the time so I don’t need to have tabs open.


👤 zaktoo2
Roughly 8000 over 12 or so windows (FF nightly)

👤 acqbu
8 (3 pinned), rarely go over 10

👤 vladstudio
I have 15 (5 of them pinned, the other 10 related to current activity).

👤 ksec
201 Tabs. May be down to 180 after I read through some news.

👤 byoung2
45 tabs in one window, 5 in another

👤 furgooswft13
128 + 3 in another