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I don't know, it takes real effort to curate your tabs below 100. Its very, very easy to not close tabs you don't use, these days, and at least one major browse

I don't know, it takes real effort to curate your tabs below 100. Its very, very easy to not close tabs you don't use, these days, and at least one major browser just doesn't bother to load the tab if you haven't touched it in a while. I know it seems hard to believe, but for a single topic its not unusual to have 10+ tabs open, when I do research on a topic I'm often hitting 20-30 tabs, and the more work you do the more you have open. 100 tabs per topic, lets say, and someone interested in 40 topics, I could see 4k tabs as reasonable. I would bet they only have 10 tabs actually activated/loaded, but.

Panzer04 4y ago
What is the point of 4K tabs though? If everything is open, nothing might as well be open because it serves no utility in tracking what you’re working on, right? I often get into the 30-50 tab range, and the majority of those are unused and I have to do a purge because I’ve long forgotten the context where I need them. I can believe someone might do similarly with more tabs, but no that many more XD.
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  In Firefox you type "%" into the url bar, which will search all tabs. Also you can right-click the back button to see the history of each tab. Usually that begins with a google search that reminds me what the context was. I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window, or two windows if I want to tile them to view both. Obviously, I'm very bad at respecting such limits. :-)
  - forgotpwd16 4y ago
    >I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window Have you tried tree style tabs?
    - brokenmachine 4y ago
      No, I loved Tab Mix Plus but Mozilla killed it. I get nervous messing with it too much in case I lose all my tabs. I know I can manually backup/restore the file from the Firefox profile folder but I'd rather not mess with it. Can anyone verify that tree style tabs works with an absurd number of tabs?
      - forgotpwd16 4y ago
        Have often gone at 2K+ (which maybe isn't absurd compared what others have opened) but max ~100 active rest being unloaded. Only issue had once was sidebar went into rendering loop on browser startup. Not sure what did to fix (should've maybe fill a bug report too) but lost the hierarchy so had to group them again. A bit time consuming due to the amount of tabs but not much since you can select and group multiple tabs.
- zelphirkalt 4y ago
  The thing is, I want my bookmarks to be tagged properly, to make sure, that I will always find what I search, provided I enter anything relevant. Website titles might or might not contain all the useful search terms. Tagging takes effort. I am lazy, so I do not bookmark and tag everything right away. I also use an extension to group my tabs into categories, which makes it much easier to handle the amount of tabs.
iLoveOncall 4y ago
This is just misusing your browser. That's what bookmarks or reading lists are for.
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  Bookmarks don't keep the history. I use tabs to keep the history, so when I come back to that tab, I can right-click the back button and see how I got to that page.

Panzer04 4y ago

What is the point of 4K tabs though? If everything is open, nothing might as well be open because it serves no utility in tracking what you’re working on, right? I often get into the 30-50 tab range, and the majority of those are unused and I have to do a purge because I’ve long forgotten the context where I need them. I can believe someone might do similarly with more tabs, but no that many more XD.

brokenmachine 4y ago
In Firefox you type "%" into the url bar, which will search all tabs. Also you can right-click the back button to see the history of each tab. Usually that begins with a google search that reminds me what the context was. I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window, or two windows if I want to tile them to view both. Obviously, I'm very bad at respecting such limits. :-)
- forgotpwd16 4y ago
  >I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same window Have you tried tree style tabs?
  - brokenmachine 4y ago
    No, I loved Tab Mix Plus but Mozilla killed it. I get nervous messing with it too much in case I lose all my tabs. I know I can manually backup/restore the file from the Firefox profile folder but I'd rather not mess with it. Can anyone verify that tree style tabs works with an absurd number of tabs?
    - forgotpwd16 4y ago
      Have often gone at 2K+ (which maybe isn't absurd compared what others have opened) but max ~100 active rest being unloaded. Only issue had once was sidebar went into rendering loop on browser startup. Not sure what did to fix (should've maybe fill a bug report too) but lost the hierarchy so had to group them again. A bit time consuming due to the amount of tabs but not much since you can select and group multiple tabs.
zelphirkalt 4y ago
The thing is, I want my bookmarks to be tagged properly, to make sure, that I will always find what I search, provided I enter anything relevant. Website titles might or might not contain all the useful search terms. Tagging takes effort. I am lazy, so I do not bookmark and tag everything right away. I also use an extension to group my tabs into categories, which makes it much easier to handle the amount of tabs.

iLoveOncall 4y ago

This is just misusing your browser. That's what bookmarks or reading lists are for.

brokenmachine 4y ago
Bookmarks don't keep the history. I use tabs to keep the history, so when I come back to that tab, I can right-click the back button and see how I got to that page.