Windows > Tabs every single time. What helped me most was a good window manager: • A single floating window acting as an opener* • windows are always arranged

Windows > Tabs every single time. What helped me most was a good window manager: • A single floating window acting as an opener* • windows are always arranged in the case of tiling wms. • In the case of Firefox user.css can help u remove the tab bar entirely. And opening in windows rather than tabs can be configured. • I built my own window fuzzy searcher for finding windows. The effect is compulsory need to close windows asap but keep a couple of windows forever that are actually for doing work. In my case : • newsboat > firefox. • Cmus > firefox. • Aerc > firefox. • Irssi > firefox. The list goes on and on. The benefit is this: every job has it’s own window. Note that still it is 100% the case that when not in “production/building” mode the default is consuming. This setup merely helps heighten awareness to the fact. Hope it helps! * lf, ranger, nnn are all good choices.