I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.

When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.

Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    RIP Pocket. I did use it for a time before it was killed, but I had moved to self-hosted solution (readeck) prior to it being killed.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Oh it died already? Haven’t been following the news on that. I just couldn’t figure out what it’s good for, so I simply ignored it.

      • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        It was around for a long time but pretty recently Mozilla decided to kill it

        • kratoz29@lemmy.zip
          4·
          2 days ago

          I used to love that shit in the iPod Touch web browsing days… But in the end it ended up being another tab hoarding container for me lol.

          • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I push shit to read-it-later things all the time but even when I don’t read them I think it’s good. I don’t have the annoying tab clutter anymore and clearly it wasn’t that important if I haven’t ever gotten around to reading it

            • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              I think that’s a good way to ease the mental burden of an endless to-do list. You still have the list but it’s no longer actively making you feel overwhelmed.