That is exactly how I have always used tabs. It lets you preload all your pages you want, and quickly inspect and dismiss them. On a google search, I might mi

That is exactly how I have always used tabs. It lets you preload all your pages you want, and quickly inspect and dismiss them. On a google search, I might middle click 7 of the 10 links, and then immediately close 4 of them when they arent what I wanted. On hckrnews.com I can first put my brain in "which of these is interesting to me mode", and then once they are all open, switch to reading. I would prefer that a page like facebook, twitter, reddit only ever go back to the top when the refresh button is pressed. But since none of them behave as a web page should, it forces you to open everything in a new tab to preserve the page state. Middle click, close tab is the replacement for link click, back. And as others have said, browser back and forth is destructive. As you navigate you lose information. The link is still in history, but you have lost the relationship between what order things were navigated to and from, and which page led you to them. There is a market for somebody to come around and completely redesign the browser chrome paradigm, replacing back/forth, history, tabs, and bookmarks with something more seamless that preserves state, intent, relationship, and time. There should be multiple ways to open something. Super temporary, temporary, less temporary. There should be multiple ways to close something, remove from history, keep in history, minimize.