How many browser tabs do you have open right now?

Bamb0 · Yesterday, 03:59 AM

I just scanned for new activity so right now I have 17 open...

JeremyNicoll · Yesterday, 07:00 AM

about 70 ......... in 19 windows

hadaso · Yesterday, 08:20 AM

On all my devices together it's more than a thousand open tabs.
I have 16 tabs in the current Firefox window: all are threads in these forums, except one that is the search for new posts. I have 549 tabs open in the other Firefox window. (I also have 6 tabs open in Adobe reader).
I have 20 tabs open in Firefox on my phone, however those are called "active tabs". There are also 331 "inactive tabs" that are tabs that I haven't accessed for a while but haven't closed, so the Firefox apps keeps them in the "inactive tabs" area in case I want to access them again. I have several hundred additional open tabs on firefox on my office PC, and I have a few hundred more on Chrome on the office PC. I have some old tablets and some tablets that I haven't turned on for years, and I guess there are many more open tabs there.
I also have a bookmarks folder named "tabs" where several times I bookmarked all open tabs and closed them (I did that twice in 2011 and foer times in 2016 and never since 2016' so I guess the open tabs I have have accumulated since 16 August 2016. But perhaps it was only since I got my current laptop, which is perhaps 2021).

dryoldlime · Yesterday, 09:02 AM

Just 2 right now. Sometimes as many as 4. More than 4 at a time usually mean, being sloppy.

Something I often like to do is, sign in, do some brief movement among links, and then right-click on some item and choose "new tab, open". Then move to that new tab. When done, one option may be, just close the tab and I am back to the main signed-in site.

Grhm · Yesterday, 09:37 AM

Rarely more than three. I'm quite fastidious about closing them when I've finished with them. Curious how people use the same tools in dramatically different ways.

Bamb0 · Yesterday, 09:55 AM

north · Yesterday, 03:47 PM

1579 tabs open

chrisretusn · Yesterday, 06:17 PM

When I read the "New Post list, one tab. Saw this thread, now two. Noticed "Which apps would you not want to miss, or try soon?, now three. After I close this post two tabs. Very rare for me to go past 10.

JeremyNicoll · Today, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grhm

Rarely more than three. I'm quite fastidious about closing them when I've finished with them. Curious how people use the same tools in dramatically different ways.

In my case I regard my 70 open tabs as excessive; I think 15-30 would be more common for me. How many one can have is probably directly related to how much RAM one's PC has.

But ... just three ... would be hard to cope with; two of mine are the Firefox task manager, & my (static local html) bookmarks. I usually have the EMD main page & the main (folder list) pages of my two mail providers open too. If I'm expecting deliveries I'll have tracker pages open for each of them (usually not on my main screen though).

I usually have pages open for whichever 'TV' programmes I'm watching - more than one because I find I sometimes can't concentrate on some things - or the subjects are so grim I watch them in chunks. I also have several 'Radio' pages open - lightweight shows for listening to in dribs & drabs during TV-shows' ad breaks; heavier ones for when I'm up to it.

But /70/ ...?
What's happened is that I was researching some programming problems & followed links to related pages (closing those I had no interest in on the way) ... and ran out of oomph. When I have some I will go back to those sets of pages & links & summarise what I found & file the notes away.

ISTR I stumbled across some utility programs too - which are not directly related to what I was looking into - but notes on these will get added to a big folder of notes on software-to-investigate-again.

Bamb0 · Today, 02:51 AM

Yes 70 is awesome Jeremy!!

Right now I have 2 pesky tabs open... (They are fighting about which one Im gonna goto next!!)

JeremyNicoll · Today, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by north

1579 tabs open

Which browser(s)? ...

I counted my 70 manually ... but I don't suppose you did that for 1579? Is there a total displayed somewhere?

Yesterday, 03:59 AM	#1
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,365	I just scanned for new activity so right now I have 17 open...

Yesterday, 07:00 AM	#2
JeremyNicoll Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Scotland Posts: 850	about 70 ......... in 19 windows

Yesterday, 08:20 AM	#3
hadaso Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Holon, Israel. Posts: 5,205	On all my devices together it's more than a thousand open tabs. I have 16 tabs in the current Firefox window: all are threads in these forums, except one that is the search for new posts. I have 549 tabs open in the other Firefox window. (I also have 6 tabs open in Adobe reader). I have 20 tabs open in Firefox on my phone, however those are called "active tabs". There are also 331 "inactive tabs" that are tabs that I haven't accessed for a while but haven't closed, so the Firefox apps keeps them in the "inactive tabs" area in case I want to access them again. I have several hundred additional open tabs on firefox on my office PC, and I have a few hundred more on Chrome on the office PC. I have some old tablets and some tablets that I haven't turned on for years, and I guess there are many more open tabs there. I also have a bookmarks folder named "tabs" where several times I bookmarked all open tabs and closed them (I did that twice in 2011 and foer times in 2016 and never since 2016' so I guess the open tabs I have have accumulated since 16 August 2016. But perhaps it was only since I got my current laptop, which is perhaps 2021).

Yesterday, 09:02 AM	#4
dryoldlime Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2023 Posts: 290	Just 2 right now. Sometimes as many as 4. More than 4 at a time usually mean, being sloppy. Something I often like to do is, sign in, do some brief movement among links, and then right-click on some item and choose "new tab, open". Then move to that new tab. When done, one option may be, just close the tab and I am back to the main signed-in site.

Yesterday, 09:37 AM	#5
Grhm Essential Contributor Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK Posts: 299	Rarely more than three. I'm quite fastidious about closing them when I've finished with them. Curious how people use the same tools in dramatically different ways.

Yesterday, 09:55 AM	#6
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,365	11

Yesterday, 03:47 PM	#7
north Essential Contributor Join Date: May 2012 Location: north Posts: 240	1579 tabs open

Yesterday, 06:17 PM	#8
chrisretusn Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 959	When I read the "New Post list, one tab. Saw this thread, now two. Noticed "Which apps would you not want to miss, or try soon?, now three. After I close this post two tabs. Very rare for me to go past 10.

Today, 02:51 AM	#10
Bamb0 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 2,365	Yes 70 is awesome Jeremy!! Right now I have 2 pesky tabs open... (They are fighting about which one Im gonna goto next!!)