Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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?

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dosboy0xff@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I’m definitely never going back.

Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.

Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.

Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  After hearing so many recommendations for Sidebery, I finally had the perfect chance to test it out. I was searching for a specific YouTube video I’d seen almost a year ago. Zero idea who made it or the exact title was, just the general topic and a few probable keywords. Even with Gemini’s fancy AI crap and Google integrations, it was a dead end.
  
  I tried various search terms and ended up with a mountain of tabs. That’s when I realized I needed to organize the chaos, and Sidebery was a lifesaver. RAM usage hit about 14 GB, but I finally found the video.
  
  I created three tab panels: one for the main topic, another for interesting but unrelated finds, and a third for random stuff to revisit later today. Sidebery can close duplicates and move tabs between panels, and that made it much easier to manage everything. Regular tabs just can’t handle this kind of workflow.
  
  This experience really drove home why people use dedicated tab managers. Keeping everything in a single row still feels bizarre to me, but with the right tools, having a 100 tabs open is completely understandable.
  
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- Everyday0764@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  this is my default setup, i have thousands tabs opened… when i need to search for something i usually search in my opened tabs, and it’s more useful then a search engine
  
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- YashaB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Interesting. Let’s open those links in the background.
  
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  - TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    LOL, and get back to them some time within the next weeks… or months. Who knows how long it will take. 🤷
    
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- Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I used to use sideberry too, now I’m on the zen browser firefox fork and its pretty great
  
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  - TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There’s that zen browser again. I keep hearing about it, and now I can’t stop myself from trying it out.
    
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A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Have you seen the price of RAM lately? You gotta do something to make sure you’re getting your moneys worth.

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- kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  LMAO, as a light “desktop/laptop” user I agree, if it wasn’t for tab hoarding I’d never hit 90% or more of the RAM usage of my 16 GB of RAM MacBook Pro that I have been maining since 2014 😂
  
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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Saw a Loops video about it. Other than that, I have no idea.
  
  Anyway, you can always just download more ram.
  
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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have close to 200. Every task I start has a new set of tabs. In theory I’ll complete them and work my way back through the stack

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- BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why not just close them and open them back up later? Like you can bookmark the pages so you don’t lose your spot but I find it annoying to find the tab I am looking for at around 10 I would imagine it’s much worse at 200
  
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  - kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Why not just close them and open them back up later?
    
    Because that’s extra steps for no actual improvement.
    
    I close the tabs that I’m done with and add new ones when I want to not forget to look at something a bit later.
    
    That doesn’t need the “permanence” of a bookmark. (And, obviously I know editing bookmarks is a thing, but that is also extra steps for something I’ll only want once in about 15 min from now)
    
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t generally find any tab. I work with the set related to my task then close them. The tabs for the previous task are right there, so I can just continue that task until completed, then close those tabs.
    
    It partly works, but I don’t always close tabs for interruptions and aren’t always able to work my way back to uncompleted tasks, so it builds up
    
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  - rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can search specifically for open tabs in Firefox and probably most other browsers (enter % [tabname] in Firefox’ address bar) you tend to have related tabs near it, it’s less work than opening all those tabs back up through bookmarks or history.
    
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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Idk it’s crazy to see the browser windows of some teammates during screen share.

Read the thing, write down the relevant stuff / copy it to reference notes, bookmark it with raindrop or something that allows you to tag for context, close the whole browser.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I keep bumping into Raindrop all the time, but nobody explained it, as if everyone already knows what it is. I didn’t, until I finally took the time to open that site. In a new tab, obviously 😀
  
  Anyway, seems like a pretty neat idea. So, how does that better than using normal bookmarks of your browser?
  
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  - dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The main advantage is, if you keep a lot of “bookmarks” (which I don’t, but I like to be prepared) they are searchable not just by name, but also by tag.
    
    This means when you find that good stack overflow page about resolving cuda issues on a VM you can tag it as “linux” “python” “cuda” “VM” in addition to giving it a name. Then you can search for any of those and find it.
    
    The free version is pretty good and it lets you do one level of folders and as many bookmarks as you want. (Oh yeah. It supports folders so I have one for example that is called Unwatched YouTube, you might guess what I use it for). The paid version is probably better because it includes unlimited folder nesting AND it saves a snapshot of whatever webpage you’re bookmarking so you never lose anything. I would think this would be indespensible if you habitually save things like reddit or Lemmy threads so it doesn’t get deleted from under you.
    
    I don’t use raindrop.io as much as I would like, but I would assume it’s a far cry better than a browser with 200 tabs open.
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
From some comments I’ve seen about this back on Reddit, it seems like some people don’t know about bookmarks.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  To some extent, I do that as well. However, in my case, it’s not hundreds of tabs. More like 5 sites that I reference frequently enough to keep them open most of the time. I also have bookmarks for the same sites so I can quickly open them when I need to.
  
  However, what I’m really curious about is the people who have hundreds of tabs open all the time. What kind of workflow is that how does it work?
  
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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I will come back to it eventually, when the time is right.

It’s not important enough to bookmark, it’s not urgent enough to get to right now, but it’s too interesting to ignore entirely. When the time is right for a tab, I will return to it. Sometimes I scroll through them to jog my memory. Sometimes I’ll decide it wasn’t as interesting as I thought and delete it.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s sort of like the “watch later” feature in YouTube. Hey, wasn’t Firefox Pocket meant to be like that?
  
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  - Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The problem with Pocket is that it’s out of sight. That’s like writing yourself a reminder note and putting it in a box under your bed. It also doesn’t maintain tab groups, so a collection of tabs will get scattered and messy.
    
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ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I do for work because I usually have to recall information and don’t want to look it back up every time.

Pro tip: Auto-unloading the tabs (via extensions) certainly helps retain memory.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Interesting. I should look into that. What’s your favorite auto unload extension?
  
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  - ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I use This extension to auto unload and This extension to rename the tab title.
    
    Hope this helps.
    
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- douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Protip: Installing more ram makes for more convenience on keeping tabs alive forever
  
  There’s a reason I plopped in another 32GB stick
  
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  - rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    For research purposes it’s usually not necessary to keep every tab loaded, though. Extensions like Auto Tab Discard make open tabs about as resource-intensive as bookmarks, for a lot less extra work and much cheaper than new RAM.
    
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- Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders…
  
  right?
  
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  - douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it’s just another useless dump of probably useless information. This is difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.
    
    Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more
    
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  - ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders…
    
    I’m fully aware, however, I am not about to start bookmarking job’s labelled as #20000 -> 50000. Some jobs last 2+ years, like bridge projects, whereas other last a couple weeks to a month, easier to just leave tabs open for what I am focusing on within the current month.
    
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hexdream@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Only 30?

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Depends on the taks I’m working on. If it’s a simple tech problem, 10 would be a lot. If it involves comparing various products, specs and prices, hitting 50 is quite normal. The key here is that I always close the tabs as soon as I’m done with that topic.
  
  If it’s something I need to get back to later, it requires a more permanent place than browser tabs.
  
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MuttMutt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I keep tabs open so I can refer back to them when working on stuff or when I am planning things.

Right now I’m in the middle of house repairs on a former slumlord property. Will be installing 7.2KW of solar panels in a system that can island without causing issues. Need to rip and replace the back porch because the roof was rotten already and the floor is not much better. Trying to run and build a YouTube channel in the SCUBA diving niche. Planning for a dive trip to Cozumel in April so I can get more footage for said channel. And trying to start a non-profit that will support SCUBA training for teens and young adults who survived childhood abuse. While also running a website for the YouTube channel and the non-profit. All while dealing with life, family, a dog, and two vehicles. I do EVERYTHING with my own hands because I don’t have cash to pay others to do it for me.

When I am preparing to make a purchase I also tend to have even more tabs open as I compare prices and costs for shipping among other things. The replacement materials for our roof was about 5K total for just under 3000sq ft of roof and I had to install venting that previously didn’t exist. Just made the next to last purchase for solar and have 6500 invested and about 1000 left to go for the racking and a few miscellaneous things.

It takes a lot to remember everything so keeping tabs open is a huge stress reliever.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I can see you have a lot of stuff going on, which naturally results in lots of tabs. That’s basically like using the web for professional purposes.
  
  Comparing prices is one of those cases where I can easily have 20-30 tabs open, sometimes even more. However, once I’ve figured out what I’m going to order, I just close all of them to keep my sanity.
  
  Many other people here have said that tabs act like reminders, and that’s a new approach to me. When I have lots of stuff going on at work, I put them on a long list in OneNote. It’s basically a sortable table that allows me to prioritize things, add additional information and mark tasks as complete. If I didn’t do that, life would feel very overwhelming. I think having lots of tabs could also result in similar discomfort, but obviously many people don’t feel that way.
  
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  - MuttMutt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Everyone has their own way of dealing with things. I do a lot more research on my tablet as it’s almost always with me. My desktop is used for video editing, some gaming, dealing with SBC (small board computing) devices, managing the homelab, and is also acting as my camera DVR.
    
    Since most everything is already in the browser for me using something else to save the links is a slowdown outside of emailing something to myself for use on my desktop. It’s also the reason why I don’t use apps for many things, apps are linear and really don’t allow you to explore tangents like a browser with a new tab opening a link.
    
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join@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
the windows of siracusa county

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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Uhhh because I need it

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  All 500 of them?
  
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  - pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe not now but I will need them eventually
    
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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

but once I’m done, I close them all

Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When I have a lot of unfinished things going on, they begin to bother me. I need to close things and start from a clean slate. Doesn’t that bother you at all?
  
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  - howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
    
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QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
on desktop, hell no. On mobile, I just wanted to see what would happen if I stopped closing them once in a while. it lags my phone so bad every time I scroll through them. It look about 1 minute to get through the entire list lol

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- Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I keep seeing people talk about tabs lagging their devices, but I have never had that since 2008. Is that a safari thing?
  
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  - QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    firefox mobile. Only when I’m scrolling through the list of tabs.
    
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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Stress testing is always a valid reason and a noble cause. Keep those tabs coming. You’re only getting warmed up with 800ish tabs. You can go much higher than that. I believe in you!
  
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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because they hadn’t heard of this feature called bookmarks

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- 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bookmarks is where all my open tabs go to die and never be remembered again.
  
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EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For me, it more boils down to keeping my place within a web page or ever-updating feed.

For instance… If I’m going down a rabbit hole, I could have 4 root tabs open. Those tabs may have lengthy articles and would reference secondary sites throughout the page. Rather then having a good chance of the browser losing my place down the page by clicking on a link normally, I open it in a new tab. This allows me to switch to it, skim down to where it was referenced to understand that part of it, then switch back to the root tab while leaving the secondary tab open to fully read through when I finish with the root one. As the rabbit hole deepens, those secondary tabs may eventually become root tabs which may also reference their own secondary sites or even each other. The number of tabs just keeps growing until I either run out of those secondary tabs or I am just satisfied with the amount of info I gained. This can also happen over several days or weeks and have other rabbit holes open at the same time.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah that makes a lot of sense too. That sort of forking is very common, especially when reading Wikipedia articles. Occasionally I have several wikipedia tabs open, but once I’ve drilled down deep enough, I lose interest, and close all of those tabs.
  
  When researching any topic, it’s really common to have lots of tabs open, but I always close them as soon as they have served their purpose. I guess that’s the key difference here. Actually that difference is interesting. Why do I lose interest so quickly or why do you keep yours open for several days or even weeks?
  
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  - Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not OP, but many topics last longer than a week.
    
    I’m not going to finish Factorio in a week, and my collection of tabs on factorioLab, sheets, drawio, and the wiki are both interrelated and mark the several projects I have going. That’s also a topic that would be very annoying to reopen every week, and also would lead to bookmark clutter as most of those tabs will get closed when the projects are finished.
    
    There’s also research tabs for things that will come up later. I have 6 open right now for configuring a smart home system that won’t get opened until I can actually see the system in person, but I don’t know when that will happen.
    
    And there’s also long running series, like text stories, podcasts, or youtube series. That would be a nightmare to update bookmarks for, but those tabs will track progress just fine.
    
    I suppose I keep tabs exactly because I want to keep interest for weeks, but I know I’ll forget all the details between sessions.
    
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LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
… because I can’t find the tab I opened 2 days ago, so it’s faster open it again… which just creates a negative feedback loop of having too many tabs and not able to find anything.

Case and point: I’m in IT and we use github. Some code requires reviews (which needs “more time” to complete), then often I’m looking at other 3rd party repos’ for documentation/examples/etc. Some might be useful, some are related to my current problem. Oh, I get a ping - I need to finish that PR review: “which tab is it? They ALL say github!” … and I’m too impatient to hover over them. So, it’s faster to just type the URL in and go.

I loved browser plugin, Vimperator. It was fantastic, I could (at anytime) type “:b <pattern>” and it would search through my open tabs. But I’ve tried a bunch of the “successor”, but universally they seem to get “stuck” when it comes to inputting text - either into text fields (like on a normal email form) or as input into the browser extension.

Recently, I found an extension that would group tabs based on your rules (so, I could separate the company github tabs from the OSS). It’s far from perfect… but it’s endurable.

… but what I really wish for is a Firefox plugin that’ll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it’ll filter the results.

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- rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Firefox plugin that’ll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it’ll filter the results.
  
  Is that different from searching all open tabs by typing % [keyword] into the address bar?
  
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  - LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Holy Snap -
    
    That is exactly what I’ve been looking… and it would explain why I couldn’t find a plugin.
    
    Thank you for sharing this!
    
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- beegnyoshi@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I believe vimium does this with T
  
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- clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Vivaldi (chromium) lets me set tab rules. Tabs will jump to the correct workspace automatically.
  
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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s quite the vicious circle. More tabs means more problems, and you solve them by adding more tabs. LOL
  
  Anyway, when doing work related stuff, it’s common to need a whole bunch of tabs open at times. However, not closing them is the detail that sets you apart from some other people. I think that opening lots of new tabs is a pretty universal experience, but closing them isn’t.
  
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DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It’s very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That sounds pretty cool. Are those tab management tricks something that could be replicated in Firefox with a few extensions?
  
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  - DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Possibly. I never messed around with tab management extensions before. Everything in Zen is built in
    
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Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Most of my projects require like 2-4 web apps so i constantly have two browser windows open side by side, with a bunch tabs on each

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s a familiar feeling. However, some people have an absurd number of tabs open all the time. Makes me wonder if they actually use them for something.
  
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Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I used to use bookmarks (at home). Now I just keep tabs open.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Any idea why though? Is it just because it’s easier, it’s a visible reminder or something like that?
  
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  - Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I think for me, personally, I bookmark sites I need to access regularly. As in, daily. At home, I don’t really visit the same sites. Or at least, it’s more infrequent, and fewer ones. So I just leave open a tab for Lemmy, Metacritic, HotLocalDwarfMilfs, Wikipedia, Spotify, etc. Even if my computer is restarted, Firefox saves them!
    
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YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I typically have 100-200. It’s usually a “let me come back to this in a day or three”, which may or may not happen. Or a thread of “doing research on a topic” and then getting pulled to something else, but not having time to summarize/organize for later. Plus, as others have mentioned, sometimes you need the tab session history.

I really appreciate y’all saying what a monster or computer illiterate I am, though. Don’t tell my boss, she’ll wonder what I do all day.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hmm… The “lemmy get back to that” feeling is familiar, especially the second part where you never actually do.
  
  Back when I had a hundred neatly organized bookmarks, there were several links like that. Some site seemed like a neat tool or an interesting article, but I never actually ended up revisiting that site. Fast forward 10 years, and I start going through all of those bookmarks to see which ones are actually worth keeping. That’s when I find out that more than half of those sites don’t even exist any more.
  
  Nowadays, I’m better at letting go of digital things and discarding useless junk. My current bookmark list consists of sites I actually use frequently enough to appreciate the shortcut.
  
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I’m researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. If it’s something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.

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Mika@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I regularly filter out tabs on laptop, bookmarking things and closing stuff that isn’t on todo list for the next 24h.

Mobile though, clicling that through UI takes so much time I can’t be bothered. I just open new stuff on top, and maybe sometimes go through tabs like as if that’s browser history.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The good thing about tabs on mobile is the fact that the system manages RAM very efficiently. You never actually need to close anything, because the system takes care of kicking things out of RAM all the time. That’s both good and bad, but in your case it’s totally worth it.
  
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Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only instances of this I have seen (on mobile) were not very tech-savvy people who click links in messages and apps, rarely open the browser, and/or don’t understand how to use the browser to begin with.

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- TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’ve seen that too. They also tend to have a thousand notifications waiting for them. They are basically ignoring the notification system entirely. Pointless spam pops up all the time and the one time they actually receive a message from someone, it’s impossible to know because they never look at the notifications. I guess the red dots are the only way these people know someone has sent them anything.
  
  People like that would hate using SailfishOS, because it’s not holding your hand at all. If you leave everything open, it’s going to suck the RAM and battery in no time, and it’s all your fault. That’s one of the few mobile OSs that made me feel like I had an actual computer in my pocket.
  
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because, shockingly, not everyone sees the world the way you do.

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Strider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
At work? Every shit is a browser app now. Hard to organize.

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ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I am surprised by all the ADHD responses. I have ADHD and being able to see all the tabs I’m not using makes me anxious. I have to close them. If I really need them, I move them to a separate window and pretend it’s not there.

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Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
ADHD

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url@feddit.fr ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No idea. I close tabs as soon as I’m done. Also private tab by default

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Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I suspect they lack whatever visceral reaction makes me start to panic if I have more tabs open than fit neatly across the top of the browser.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t really see anyone admitting the truth: digital hoarding. At a certain number of tabs it becomes nearly impossible to find anything so it’s hard for me to believe people really find the practice as useful as they claim. I probably have 50 tabs open but I use a tab group app that keeps most hidden (and Firefox doesn’t load the content in inactive tabs after you restart it). Most are essentially bookmarks but I’d be lying if I said even 20% of them end up being useful to keep open.

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