Your browser tab count

7859.

Firefox seems to have problems around 8000 (or maybe it's just me?), so don't go there :).

If you do, and Firefox crashes at startup, you might need to delete (or better: rename) some files under .mozilla/firefox//:

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore-backups/recovery.baklz4

.mozilla/firefox//sessionstore.jsonlz4

You'll obviously lose the tabs opened since the last start.

You can have a backup with Tab Session Manager (for Chrome too):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager/releases

I'm of the bookmark generation, my tapbount explodes during active trouble-shooting or research then dwindles to 0 immediately after. About 2k bookmarks. My bookmarks is a plain html file in my home directory, it is my "starting page" too, so I use it by opening a new window. I like it because it is easy to edit, human readable, and portable.

I'm sorry that there are so many people with hundreds of tabs open, because theyir use-pattern is why my browser constantly seems to want to purge tabs from active memory, even though I have plenty of free memory and do not want them purged. For instance, a few web-apps that have no active code or sockets, running, but does have a state.. when those tabs are purged, so is the state..

OMFG ! I never really understood this or the use of all those tab managers [1]. For me, Tabs are just links. Why do you have to keep them open? Can't you just bookmark them ? (and then delete them later)

[1] https://alternativeto.net/feature/tab-manager/?sort=likes

About 4500. Not kidding. Most of it is residue from "I'll read it later" or "I haven't properly understood it" sessions that inevitably crash. I run about ~50-100 (active) tabs at any given time, and the rest are "unloaded". And I don't want to get rid of them because they're a "sequence" of how I came to something (even though I document important stuff).

What'll end up happening though, is that one day I'll leave that user profile for some reason and make another, which will go up to 200 and then I'll convince myself that I'll go back to my old profile after I close all the current tabs. Doesn't really happen. This is what happened to the ~2k tab profile that preceded my current profile. I still have that profile (started in 2017), don't know if it'll run with the current FF version though.

This is also why I don't use Chrome, because it's a glorified dev testing environment unto itself and not really a proper, usable browser.

Currently 2 on mobile (including HN) and ~6 on my work desktop. 0 on my home desktop.

I only keep tabs open that I’m actively using or will use over the course of my day/week. Anything else gets bookmarked or archived.

I'm sort of OCD about open tabs. I close them whenever I'm finished (or think I'm finished). Worst case scenario, I open the browser history and navigate back to what I wanted. This doesn't happen very often. If something needs saving, it goes into my bookmarks.

Slightly unrelated, but I'm the same way on my desktop too. I hate open windows that I'm not actively using. I always force close things on my MacBook.

Edit: To answer the question, 1.

So, something is seriously wrong with me. I knew it.

I never have enough tabs opened at any time; if a tab is open, it is a to-do for me to either do it (read, or fill up or something), or ignore and close it. My mobile browser auto-closes if any tab is left open for more than a week (by mistake). Desktop browser has (except on rare days) all tabs closed and clean by end of day/work.

The most I have is like 15 or so odd ones that I read real quick (kinda speed-read). It is the time when I will also have a timer[0] running for 25-min, then close all even if I'm not finish. This is when I submit articles to Hackernews.

0. P.S. I found out about a year or so back that a timer is the best way to keep track and push your tasks on time. Now I own few mechanical kitchen timers, electronic ones, a large highly visual hourglass (30-min), and the only Complicatons on the primary Watch face is --- the Timer.

Three, at the moment; it'll be two, after I finish posting this comment, since I've finished reading the discussion.

8 on desktop, 3 on mobile.

The 100's/1000's people have real issues

4. I hate having open tabs. I close everything. If something is worth reading it goes into Pocket, if it's a repo worth inspecting, I clone it into a Syncthing folder, if it's something different, like a good hint on a thing I'm working on, it goes into vimwiki.

20. I use xTab (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xtab/amddgdnlkmoha...) which automatically closes the oldest unpinned tab so the count never goes above a user-specified size.

This lets me jump back to recent tabs and I don't miss those that close on their own.

Note: if you use this and use a web-based meeting site like Google Meet, make sure you pin that so you don't get disconnected if you start browsing the web during a meeting.

Somewhere between 300 and 700. I close a bunch of them when the system slows down.

Desktop: 6 + 3 pinned, but I always start the day with only 1 + 3 pinned.

Mobile: 4 (I have a lot on mobile because I keep some to read later, even though they should be bookmarks at some point).

Additional notes:

emails currently in inbox: 0

Mental sanity: excellent

Four.

Hacker news, this post, rpilocator, (it's Wednesday, Adafruit might get some in), and You Tube.

After I submit, I'll read some comments, close this tab, close the Hacker News tab, and watch a video.

6 on desktop and 3 on mobile. I rarely allow my browsers to get above 10 tabs open. Same goes for IDEs and iTerm. If I hit 10 tabs, I generally mass close everything. I don't ever feel productive with that many tabs open. If something is important, I'll bookmark it or throw it in Obsidian.

Just checked on chrome://inspect/#pages

- 176 on desktop

- 208 on laptop

- :D on mobile (guess that means 100+)

Usually they accumulate for a few weeks then I just close all windows except one where I save all I still need / want to read / etc...

(incidentally - why I want to build a browser extension to our app (curiosity.ai), to help navigate all this mess)

Mobile Firefox stopped giving an actual number a while ago. I think it's past 100 that it shows ∞, which is what it is displaying now for me. I'm not near my desktop right now, but there it's well over 4000. I'm a tab hoarder.

I try to keep my tabs to a fairly low count by closing ones I'm not using, though I don't always succeed. At the moment, I've got about 10 tabs open, but that'll likely go down to between 5-8 soon.

Just under 400. There's a lot of people with crazy numbers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32312441

Personal: < 5 for both desktop and mobile.

Work: 3 Windows each with 50-100+ some in collapsed tab groups. Chrome now pauses and shows a spinning mouse pointer for 2-5 seconds when closing tabs. Restarting it helps a bit.

40 Right Now, but last week it was 400+.

Safari is the only browser that doesn't give a list of Tabs. Both Chrome and Firefox have it.

Again, Multi ( I mean tens to hundreds or sometimes thousands ) Tab usage is still an unsolved problem.

About 40 on desktop, spread around 4 windows.

Less than 30 on mobile. Samsung's browsers lets me customize its interface. I added the "close tab" button there. It has kept my tab count in check.

~ 600 on Desktop

Strategies for managing tabs:

- Firefox is my main browser, so I use Pocket to save sites for reading later. Tab is then immediately closed.

- Add on to save open sessions, nuke session from time to time and start over

My father beats me hands down. But I have to check it out his browser. I'm sure he has a lot more than me. I'll brb here with numbers asap.

At most: 10. And I actively close them. Whenever I need something back I can just look at history.

105 loaded on Desktop at the moment but I usually hover around ~300-350, at peak I had 1915 loaded at one time.

- Desktop: 31 - Mobile: 168

I try to purge some tabs every day, but don't always do so. Mobile involves a lot of random browsing.

Anyone know of good tab group managers? I tried it in Chrome but keep loosing the groups when I restart chrome

- 365 on desktop (I am using a vertical tab list since I can't even see anything at the top)

- 25 on mobile

I have 85 on my phone, but until recently it was more than 200, I try to do some GC now

How do you have so many tabs on mobile? I get desktop - I hover around 100 most days.

- 28 on mobile

- desktop not sure, too many folders with various reads to count

Currently two, including this one.

2114 on desktop.

The laptop has 1000ish.

500000+ OneTab

At home: ~700