How many tabs do you usually have open in your browser?

i'm a 10-15 kinda girl

I'm 10-15 too. Opera lets you group 'em so I can hide my batch of always opens (gmail, twitter, etc) and concentrate on the new links on hand, etc. It's nice.

6-9, fnarrrr. Though I will edge into 10-15 every so often.

3 to 5, but multiple profiles

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

Sometimes as many as a dozen when I'm catching up on newsfeeds/blogs/etc. in the morning. My PC chugs like a steam engine though, so usually not more than 3 or 4.

Also because Chrome doesn't sandbox tabs as much as claimed, particularly Flash components, so something crashing on one tab can affect others.

56 right now

1 to 3 usually, voted 2

3 windows of ~20 right now :/

6-9 in work browser (firefox), 6-9 in 'other' browser (chrome)

eephus, thank you for making me feel like slightly less of a tab hoarder (@ 42). TBF, most of them are open to very particular pages that I've referenced quite a bit lately.

I (ab)use the Chrome bookmarks bar for that.

Tab Menu

Close All Tabs From a Site

^ these two exts serve me pretty well

38 in Firefox (using tree-style vertical tabs), 50 in Chrome.

3-5. I use the FirefoxTab Mix Plus add-on and often have one or two tabs protected/locked when I want to remind myself to read something but don't want it to get lost in my bookmarks pile.

xpost

(high fives)

I have a feeling "excessive browser tabs" will totally show up in a future DSMIV ADD diagnosis.

20+ for lyfe, i start cleaning up when the favicons disappear, h8 it so much when the favicons disappear

33 atm

xp That's just a sign that you need to buy a bigger monitor.

Two at a time, sometimes three. More than that would drive me insane.

actually only 6 right now, but often have over 20 open

When I have over 20 open my computer starts to chug and I must to make the bookmark-or-forget decisions. But I just use firefox and no extensions for this issue. If there were no computer slowdown I'm sure I'd have 30+ tabs open all the time...

two

i try to keep in the 3-5 range but more often than not i'm in 6-9 territory, especially at work. i think if i ever get up to 10 or more i start closing things or making sure i'm done reading them as quickly as possible

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so... nobody but me wants an infinite tab browser?

3-5 in each window

usually two windows

13 right now: something I intend to buy once I decide I can actually afford to spend the scratch (2), a short story a friend I'm working with wants me to read (1), an email I need to answer (1), prog-sphere.com (1), ilx threads (3), charity I might donate to (1), twitter (1), schedule of upcoming boxing matches (1), King of Metal Reviews Cannibal Corpse Album covers (1), inbox (1)

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way? does it provide spiritual in addition to literal closure to your task? is there more than a practical reason for keeping tabs under a certain amount?

Inbox Zero is my ultimate rush (well okay, and Credit Card Zero)

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

56 right now

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That makes me want to break out into hives.

would you guys install a browser plugin that cleared away chains of similarly favicon'd tabs, like in puyo puyo or bejeweled?

hahahaha

"opening a third tab of opponents Pacquiao's faced since De La Hoya to look at how they did in the year before Pac agreed to face them...oh shit, well, there they go"

right now:

1. inbox
2. LOL star trek related
3. ILX
4. Dog Food Recall

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way? does it provide spiritual in addition to literal closure to your task? is there more than a practical reason for keeping tabs under a certain amount?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:48 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TOTALLY. Love to close tabs.

http://i.imgur.com/9ECmo.png

lol correctly id'ing the parent domain for lagoon's tabs is today's challenge

11 of them I couldn't get

b/w 6-9 & 10-15.

Usually if the latter, I have them itemized by task & divided up b/w two windows, lolOCD

Five usually max. It gets hard to tell what each is with more than that.

3-5 is what I prefer

after that i do start to get a little antsy, i admit

Leftmost tab is always ILX.

I HAVE ALL THE TABS. ALL THE TABS ARE MINE

I just keep opening them until they no longer get a favicon in Chrome (25-30 on my laptop?) and then I can't see what they are any more. Then I admit to myself that I am probably not actually going to read them all and I start to close them unread, or just go to bed and give up on them. Sometimes I leave them open when I go to bed and let them all reopen the next day and let the guilt start again.

Sigh.

heres a recommended tab i have open that leads to more tabs http://longform.org/author/david-grann-2

I always feel like in one of the 20 unread or not-quite-finished tabs there might be a little nugget of vital information, e.g. the one blast of eye-opening instant knowledge that will show me how to be a better, more productive person.

Of course the real key to being a more productive person would be not to open 30 tabs at once and read all the internet all evening, but that doesn't seem to occur to me.

I just close my browser when I end up having too many tabs

also, owning a kindle + the "send to kindle" chrome app has helped reduce the amount of tabs I keep open. Now instead of having a long articles sitting unread in open tabs in my browser I have lots of long articles sitting unread on my kindle. Progress.

ya i feel like the main function of instapaper/readability/etc is tab graveyard

like thank god i dont have to relate to this interesting looking thing

wait do tabs still disappear when you close browsers? Do you guys just leave it on/in sleep mode all the time? I know I am a broken record about this but not only does Opera do tab stacking (so I can group 2-50+ tabs in one tab slot) but it saves everything for my next reboot.. I only use Opera so I'd no idea how the others have let the tab lovers down!

IT also gives me a list of recently closed tabs, an option to open a new window with a private browsing session, or just to open various windows to keep all my 'work stuff' in one session, personal in another, etc. #bragging2012

Chrome gives me a list of recently closed tabs, but I have to open a new tab to be able to see it.

I think most browsers have the option of saving whatever tabs you have open when you close the browser, but I intentionnally disable this option because otherwise I'd have about thousands of open tabs by now

i just never close my browser or turn off my computer

gotcha, okay. Opera has had saved tabs for what feels like the last ten years so I couldn't imagine that browsers still "shipped" without that functionality - but turning it off, I get.

Chrome has the option to 'On start up... Continue where I left off', but I don't have it enabled.

I usually run Firefox on my Windows laptop, and it becomes unstable and crashes alot when too many tabs are open. A planded Firefox upgrade is slated to improve performance when 20+ tabs are open.

My multi-tab pet peeve: when one of your 20 open tabs (usually when first opening your browser) starts blaring noise and I can't figure out which tab has a video window that automatically starts when you visit that page. Is there a detection plugin for this?

What's the advantage of opening a new window vs. new tabs?

97 (in two windows) currently...

Leftmost tab is always ILX.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol Gmail is always my far left tab. Ilx is usually to the right of that and then FB.

I always open up the same three tabs first thing - FB, twitter, ilx. Always.

Me too except Gmail, ILX, FB. In that order.

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way?

Oh hell yeah.

I have more open at times (like now) when I'm writing something and I have each source I might draw from open in a tab.

At other times I might have as few as 20!

usually 3-5 windows of 10-20 pages each

every few weeks i just go 'fuck it' and stick them all in the 'read later' chrome app and then never see them again. which is why i don't like doing that.

gmail is always my leftmost/ first tab too, in fact if for some reason it gets closed I'll close em all and start again. I do the same w/ task bar at work. left/ first has to be outlook then work dbase then FF.

but never more than maybe 6 tabs? seems pointless having more, not like I'm doing that much at once.

porn = 20+

o_O

like a zillion. 15? usually a couple of articles i read half of & know that i would be a better, more thorough person for finishing, but will never finish. an ended but still pinned ebay auction. a couple of gmails. some photologs that i will forget are open & so look at again in a tab ten tabs along. a couple of tabs that are google searches of phrases i've written while offline at night just as reminders to myself, like email ___ or club soda origins. bunches of ilx threads, all at once, so many that it edges out the icon on the tab, & then I work through them, until 0 ilx threads. you just wait for the day when you accidentally erase all of the tabs and remember that you didn't need any of them at all just not one bit because there is plenty more internet where that came from.

voted 6-9, probably where i'm usually at. 17 at the moment tho.

let's see... 3 for email, 1 for fb, 2-3 for ilx, 5-6 ofr articles i'm kinda reading through, 4 for the website i work for, 1-2 for youtube, 1 wiki, 2 for news things, 1 for another forum i browse, 3 for sports websites. so around 20+ aat all times. i also never shut down my laptop and hate it when my browser crashes and for some reason it bugs and cannot reopen all tabs cos that means i have to open all those ebsites again.

Firefox runs so slowly for me anymore, I really should switch to Chrome or Safari. But there are a couple of particular FF customizations that make my daily internetting so much easier, and which I haven't figured out how to recreate in other browsers. But that's for another thread. Anyway, I usually have 5 or 6 tabs open...voted 6-9.

crashed, lost em all, can't remember a single one

o well

30-70 with tree-style tabs. never less than 15

i've occasionally had 40 tabs open for work, which pretty much makes my shitty work computer grind to a halt

i also never shut down my laptop and hate it when my browser crashes and for some reason it bugs and cannot reopen all tabs

in Firefox, search for the files "sessionstore.js" and "prefs.js", and make backup copies of them occasionally. If Firefox can't reopen your tabs after it crashes, close firefox, copy the latest versions of your backups of those two files to the folder where firefox normally keeps them, and restart firefox. Your tabs will reappear.

can i just say thank god for tabs, i remember expending an inordinate amount of time and effort on positioning a dozen or more browser windows in different shapes and sizes around my screen in order to be able to click between them as quickly as possible without resorting to a godforsaken dropdown menu

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i have 11 tabs open right now and feel like that's a lot fewer than i've had open in a long time, like a false sense of having shit under control

tell us about your tabs

fascinating conversation material let me tell you

it's your thread!

i know!
thread of passing fascination

i think we've all found out what we need to know

here

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Decided to have a thorough look to the left of my tab bar, something I've been putting off for obvious reasons... I've 432 tabs in here. Are there any good in-browser (ff/chrome) extensions or apps to quickly drop urls in for future reference? (no evernote plz)

Pocket is something I’ve seen others mention but never used

285 in Safari, I’ve hit the 500 tab ceiling on numerous occasions.

I have ~300 open in Chrome and 70 open in Opera

also I just ate a whole packet of biscuits, and I'm drinking wine even though I told myself this morning I should never drink wine again, and I meant to go for a walk two hours ago but I'm still sat here and it'll be dark soon, and my flat is a terrible mess and my work to-do list is full of tasks which are weeks or months overdue, and help, someone please help, I have no self-control

(goes to open Raf "Self Control" in a new tab, and hey why not the Laura Branigan version too, and let's just look up the lyrics, and...)

oh, I had a tab purge recently too, it was probably worse before. or maybe I've undone all my tab-closing work already

I've heard of Pocket but never used it - what advantage does it have over my other hoarding technique, which is bookmarking tabs so I don't feel bad about closing them and then never looking at my bookmarks list?

(I guess it is aimed at people who do actually get round to things, but hey, maybe I'll try it anyway, in the hope that I'll turn into one of those people)

27 rn. I'd just bookmark everything but then i'd never get to them. Not like I will now lol.

I don't understand the hundreds of tabs thing. I have 5 open windows with roughly 5 tabs open for each

Three - one for FB, one for ILX, and often one for Ultimate Guitar tablature