Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?
WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 1 day agoThe decline of good search engines and the AI slopocalypse has made it difficult to find good resources. Let alone, to find it a second time. So a lot of us close the tab only after the related task is completed. Bookmarks are too permanent for one-off tasks (plus, we probably have way too many bookmarks already).
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yeah that would make sense except the overuse of tabs is at least a decade old phenomenon.
WhatTheDuck@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Eh… depends on the interpretation of overuse. One person’s excess is another person’s minimal. Different subjects - like ones that require researching - are expected to need more tabs open. It loosely parallels having multiple books splayed open for quick referencing.
Though, I do feel the number of tabs lately has drastically increased for myself and colleges.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Overuse means you have trouble finding tabs because you have too many. I don’t think your analogy works very well here. No one would defend having 2000 books open as helpful to a researcher.