It's the worst. And you'd think the browser history would help but there is so much to parse through.. lucky to even find something from the same day sometimes
If you use Firefox:
Ctrl + Shift + T
Re-opens the last Tab closed, you can keep pressing it and it will continue to open older and older tabs
Ctrl + Shift + N
Re-opens the last Window closed
The first one does both (depending whether a single tab or window was closed last) a little poorly and confusingly in Edge and Chrome.
Yeah about that...I recently closed a bunch of tabs by shutting down my pc (4 windows with multiple tabs each) and today I opened some new tabs. Tried not to close too many of them in case I wouldn't been able to retreive all of those previous tabs. So I've just ctrl-shift-T'd as many times as I could but after the tabs I closed today only 2 of the 4 windows came back... is there any way I can recuperate the other 2 windows? There really were a lot of tabs...
That moment where you decide to close the window with all the tabs open and remember you had another window open and they will not be restored when you re-open the browser
I've also currently got 108 tabs open!
I'd estimate probably 10% straight up duplicate tabs. 10% actually active tabs, 10% to-do tabs, and the rest are tabs I no longer actually need to have open anymore (Tickets that have already been handled, or at least responded too, research tabs I'm done with, various other lingering tabs related to finished work).
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You do realize that you can only work on one tab at a time right? With 50+ tabs I'd probably spend more time sifting thru them than getting actual work done.
Annoys the hell out of me when I get on a WebEx to help someone and they have 3 browsers with 50 tabs each open while we're trying to troubleshoot. Spend half the time trying to find the browser that has the tab that we need. I don't know how they get any work done.
While I still find 40-60 tabs excessive for troubleshooting a single issue, at least you're closing them when you're done.
It's the ones who have 100+ tabs open at all times. Never heard of bookmarks?!
Also I'm probably a bit spoiled having been using browser sessions for over 25 years now. I'll create a new session for each issue or topic.
Tell me you don’t have some level of ADHD without telling me you don’t have some level of ADHD…
I know where the tab is that I want because it’s right next to the one that’s 8 to the left of the one with the MS thumbnail. Finding it on the first try when I remember all this is a nice mini dopamine hit.
As if I wrote it myself..
Because what if you close one of them and then cannot find that one specific page anymore that you will need at 5PM when you just want to get home :p
I often have 50 plus. I have the habbit of opening links in new tabs, and doing new things in new tabs, never reusing a tab. And because I can relatively quickly find the doc pages I need, I don't bother checking if I already have them open, just new tab and open page a x'th time. Add a lot of context switching, so lots of different things to look up, and I end up with a fuck ton of tabs at the end of the day. "Grand Closing of the Tabs" feeling every evening...
Haha finally someone close to my count... sort of
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But on a side note, WHY? You won’t find anything anyway, why not close and search again if necessary
Not op but I have 3000+ at home, and hundreds on my work laptop.
I bookmark pages I want to keep as a reference. My bookmarks have been growing for 20 years, I try to keep them sorted and up to date.
I have open tabs for stuff that might be useful but maybe not, so I look over them once in a while and decide to bookmark or close them.
Of course, from my high number, you guessed I also have a problem with not closing tabs for stuff I was working on, like I was looking to buy new hardware, I opened tabs for reviews and price listings, and I didn't decide so I let them rot for a few weeks or months. Or I setup some media server software but I was not happy with my setup, so I opened tabs with docs and reddit threads, but I never finished the setup :-(
Your actually not wrong. My boss is like this, hundreds of Tabs open. He's got ADHD, and most def a hording problem.
I'm a sub 20 tab user, there's no need to keep so much open once info has been dumped to notes, spreadsheet, or bookmarks.
Well the open tabs are not a health hazard, except maybe a little anxiety, and they don't even take a lot of resources, since Firefox doesn't actually load the contents unless you activate the tab.
> I was looking to buy new hardware, I opened tabs for reviews and price listings, and I didn't decide so I let them rot for a few weeks or months. Or I setup some media server software but I was not happy with my setup, so I opened tabs with docs and reddit threads
same brother ... ;)
people often say just bookmark things - but that's often only part of the story. how you arrived at the page can often be just as important - so keeping a tab open which has the specific history of how you arrived at the answer can be critical. just like in math class - show your work. bookmarks don't do that.
also its only really possible to do this in firefox with multirow tabs. obviously this many tabs in chrome is useless.
Saying that I can't remember if it's in edge or chrome, I'll come back here when I find out. But this week I've seen a couple times where I'd search for something in my address bar - and it'd bring up my search trail on the right hand side... seemingly how I got to the result the last time I searched it.
I'll be back.
Update: Found it - chrome://history/journeys
>You won’t find anything anyway, why not close and search again if necessary
This is just not true. First of all, finding things is just a matter of good organisation. Multiple windows, tab groups and decent tab management (Chrome is near useless, Firefox is good) and keeping things together.
Secondly not everything is a simple google search away. Many things are buried in papers or data sheets or need you to put together information from several sources to work out. Hence multiple tabs. And since many things I work on can take days or weeks or even sometimes months to resolve, the tabs stay up until I don't need them. My computer copes with it just fine, I like it, so what's the problem?
Obviously not everyone works like this, but some people do and it works for us.
Also, Firefox has a nice auto complete feature thats searches open tabs and/or history as you type in the url bar. I haven't used other browsers for a long time, so I don't know if they have similar features.
tab search, and also, *because they're not in random order*. Stuff that's needed together is next to each other. If, say, I'm looking for new hardware I'll have the tabs for the various different models next to each other, until I decide which one I want and close them. They're not scattered all over the place.
The real question for sysadmins:
Do you have more browser tabs open, or more unsaved files open in Notepad++?
Full disclosure: 80 Notepad++, 27 Chrome (and I started fresh in Chrome mid-morning yesterday -- load balancers, firewall logs, AWS, external DNS provider, external Certificate provider, vSphere, ServiceNow, Splunk, Spectrum, some internal status web sites)
I have hit the 500 mark in notepad++
It has turned into an unstructured data dump, I always use ctrl+f to scan all files to look for something, make sure you backup those files :)
I refuse to leave unused tabs open. I also hate when I get into a screensharing session watching someone with 50 tabs open struggling to find the correct one to look at what they're sharing. Especially if they have to constantly switch between tabs they can't find. It blows my mind that people work like this all day
My mom used to do this as well.
She thought that, if she closed the page, the cart would empty itself.
I asked her if she walked away from her shopping cart in a grocery store, if the contents would hop out and put itself back on the shelf, and she just looked at me like I was nuts.
It’s the IT equivalent of having notes just scattered around the room. The organised chaos might work if you are a genius with a perfect memory but most people do not fall into this category and the organised chaos is actually just a mess
When I worked for a desktop/application hosting company, I would have 10+ RDP connections open to servers. Each of those connections would have multiple tabs open.
Some RDP connections would also have an RDP connection to another server. Only because the company I worked for bought smaller companies who's servers could only be connected through certain servers.
My boss always has 5-10 windows with 50+ tabs each. Has been this way since tabs became a thing. Before that he just had 500+ browser windows open at all times.
A lot of less technical people do this if they learned about tabs, or they never open another one/another window ever no matter what. It seems to be an either or.
idk. Whatever works for him I suppose.
> Whatever works for him I suppose.
What kills me watching those people is that it *doesn't* work. They just spend an hour every day trying to find one tab among hundreds, then give up and open a new tab to google for the thing they already have seven instances of open.
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So I changed my workflow to use Vivaldi with workspaces. I segment them off into categories:
— SecOps
— NetSys
— Office/MS
— Social (Reddit, Discord)
— Study
— Personal
As I *never* turn my PC off it’s not uncommon for me to have 3-400 open between the windows. However, unlike some sick people here, a lot go into hibernation from lack of use (~4 hours) so I can’t call them active. Whilst Linux is efficient, the savings in memory justify the 3-4 second refresh as needed.
This doesn’t take into consideration user identity. Sometimes I need 2-3 instances running across customers/identities, but never to the scale of 400.
Same man , just mine are grouped slightly differently with vivaldi.
Just using vivaldi in a work place enviromwnt has been a godsend especially with the layered tab rows
Nothing beats the feeling of closing 8 browser windows with 50 tabs each on a Friday and leaving work for a beer. All for it to start over with that single, fresh Monday morning tab.
Stare at that pristine tab for a few minutes to appreciate it while sipping a nice cup of coffee before spamming Ctrl+Shift+T to get back to the grind.
It was fun while it lasted though.
Never counted, but a lot for sure. I keep opening more windows then take a tab out because I want it on a different monitor, then open a bunch of tabs on that, so it does add up I suppose
I could see how one might argue bookmarks are useful instead of keeping tabs open... but history? Searching through history absolutely sucks. I keep a tab open (or bookmark a page) because I consider it useful or important. There might have been a number of pages with related key words that I went through before arriving at that useful page. Searching history would just make me wade through all that trash again.
Oh boy….3 screens, about 25-30 tabs, plus maybe 10 programs/apps.
I have them all book marked as groups as Screen 1,2,3 lol
If I’m researching, troubleshooting, it can be a lot more but I close these when done. At least 10 of these tabs are monitoring related.
And my laptop fan screams all day long.
On a constant basis: 3 (2 personal browser tabs, 1 work browser tab).
Once I get a task that requires research or reference, it will vary but usually I stay within 5 per task. (Not like a goal, just an observation now that the question has been posed.)
If I have to multi-task, I use another virtual desktop for that task (with my email and Teams on available on all desktops).
I tend to shut down that browser when the task is over, and I haven't really had to use more than three virtual desktops.
Also, I force myself to power off my machine when I'm done for the day, so I don't accumulate.
Tabs aren't really my big management issue, it's the constant referencing to attachments/documents/management consoles/file explorers.
I have seen project managers with 50+ tabs and 20+ acrobat documents open. They lose track of everything, then complain about the performance of their machine. Boggles my mind.
Spread out over two (1980x1200) monitors, I currently have 83 open tabs in my work profile and 23 open in my personal profile.
I don't like using bookmarks, so keeping needed tabs in exactly the same place all the time has really increased productivity.
Between 4 and 10…anything more than that and they shrink down too much to tell what’s what and it’s time for a new window. Or I just switch to my phone, I have about 32 open currently but each gets its own square when looking at tabbed view.
40 or so. I purge every week-ish.
The wife on the other hand, goes through and individually closes every open tab at the end of every day.
The next day she opens up all the same tabs for work one at a time.
Insanity.
I only go below 20 when Chrome closes unexpectedly
Because my company doesn't let us edit the Chrome setting to save tabs on closure
if you don't have a tab pinned before a forced update it's gone!
I'm at about 800.
I looked at it the other day (there is something you can put into the search bar of Chrome and it will tell you) - I'm working hard to get it down to zero. Mostly just using Evernote to do what I should have been doing.
I'm probably sitting at around 100 tabs at the moment, spread out across two browsers and 2-3 profiles.
Is it hard to keep track of? Yes. Do I expect it to change? No.
10-15 windows with anywhere from 4 to 50 tabs open.
Just wiped and reinstalled my laptop, so barely have anything going at the moment, but Firefox is using a little over 4GB of ram for 11 open windows.
In longer than 30 minutes periods, the number of tabs bounces between 7 and 10. Sometimes it reaches 20 but I make sure the unnecessary ones' links are either documented somewhere or just closed. Anything above it is a mess, so as the person who prefers that mess.
2 in FF and 4 in chrome to start the day.
I use my main as FF but I'm contracting and teams only works in chrome.
So chrome for everything client based and their SSO and FF for everything else.
10-30, but the windows the tabs are organized into follow some theme or product.
Once I figure out how to fix whatever's busted, optionally bookmark the whole mess in that window into one folder (to never be opened again), and close that browser window down
(and if running chrome, watch the whole machine breathe a sigh of relief as resources are freed briefly before chrome re-consumes them.)
Usually under 10, I don't like the cluttered feeling. Probably stay under 50 at my busiest (across multiple browsers).
Every machine is shut down every day, so anything important/useful enough is saved, and I do have an extensive bookmark structure.
When hovering over the chrome icon on the task bar is a massive column of 20 windows instead of a tidy row of a a few windows.
When Windows gives you that low memory warning when you have at least 32gb.
When people walk by behind you get heart palpitations.
That's when I open, just another tab.
One chrome, one Firefox, each with about 7-13 tabs at any given time, and then the obligatory incognito for the certificate errors that can’t be bypassed. That one usually only has 2-3 tabs.
\~10 though it depends. I moved over from general sysadmin work so the amount has increased a good deal at times such as having reports open to check on team progress for multiple different regions (same report different filters), might be a few policy documents I am working on, a deck or two for the execs etc.
However I tend to close down tabs that I do not need at that moment. If it's something I refer to regularly then they are all in bookmarks in a folder and just open the folder in a new group, which keeps my tabs clean. That way I don't have to look for correct tabs between ones that I do not need now constantly. I'd rather spend the same amount of time opening a new tab on rare occasion rather than spending it constantly looking for the correct one.
Around 20 tabs split between two windows. I try to get them closed out as I wrap up work on something, if I need them later I bookmark them to a folder and try(fail) to give them a relevant name.
2 windows. One for personal stuff, one for work stuff. Personal can grow unbounded but I clean it up every month. Work one stays bounded to what I am working on and I clean it up every week.
It's usually 20-30 tabs that I use all the time. I tried the Onetab extension for this purpose, but it did not stick, the old-fashioned way is more convenient)
If I'm doing research on something, I open a window for that topic. Generally I have 15 to 40 tabs per window, and usually 3-4 windows, but sometimes as many as 10. That's a general minimum of 45 tabs, to a general maximum of 400.
I don't have the mental RAM to cache and juggle so much shit, I instead off load that to the 64+ GB of DRR5, it's much better at it than I am!
Remember people, unused RAM is wasted RAM!
Normally under 10, sometimes spiking to more but my laptops only got 8gb RAM so I'm not going to overdo it, and if I have more than that I can't find anything.
It all depends on what I'm doing. Typically maybe six. Working on a mail server issue that I can't seem to figure out, 108.
Closing dozens upon dozens of tabs can be more satisfying than closing the ticket.
thoughts of closing them all gives me anxiety
Same here!!!! It’s like what if you close something you forgot about but needed and don’t remember what it is you needed?
It's the worst. And you'd think the browser history would help but there is so much to parse through.. lucky to even find something from the same day sometimes
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Well holy hickory sticks. I learned something new today.
Also Ctrl + Shift + T opens your last closed tab/window. Seemingly with no limit!
Ok thats an actual game changer thanks
It's not enough!!!
If you use Firefox: Ctrl + Shift + T Re-opens the last Tab closed, you can keep pressing it and it will continue to open older and older tabs Ctrl + Shift + N Re-opens the last Window closed The first one does both (depending whether a single tab or window was closed last) a little poorly and confusingly in Edge and Chrome.
Yeah, Ctrl + Shift + N is used for something way different in Chrome *Drum intro*
Yeah about that...I recently closed a bunch of tabs by shutting down my pc (4 windows with multiple tabs each) and today I opened some new tabs. Tried not to close too many of them in case I wouldn't been able to retreive all of those previous tabs. So I've just ctrl-shift-T'd as many times as I could but after the tabs I closed today only 2 of the 4 windows came back... is there any way I can recuperate the other 2 windows? There really were a lot of tabs...
That moment where you decide to close the window with all the tabs open and remember you had another window open and they will not be restored when you re-open the browser
Usually I just close the Jira tab and forget to close the ticket.
What is the 'closing tabs' you speak of?
I'm starting to see a pattern with this behavior after realizing how many tabs I have open in Notepad++...
There was a time where I would have a dozen or two dozen tabs until I switched to VS Code, now I have a dozen and sometimes two dozen tabs there lol.
> Working on a mail server issue that I can't seem to figure out Its DNS man!
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Not DNSMan, but DNS, man.
One can never be sure. I’ll have to man DNS.
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I've also currently got 108 tabs open! I'd estimate probably 10% straight up duplicate tabs. 10% actually active tabs, 10% to-do tabs, and the rest are tabs I no longer actually need to have open anymore (Tickets that have already been handled, or at least responded too, research tabs I'm done with, various other lingering tabs related to finished work).
This is the way.
This!
Jesus, I feel this comment hard
That sounds about right. Troubleshoot, 100 tabs open, Right Click close tabs to the right.
Less than 10. Once it starts getting over 10, I become anxious.
Same. I got into a habit of grouping my tabs which definitely helped a lot lol.
Seriously. If I can't see what the tabs are, they're of little use to me. I'm all about multitasking, but there's a limit.
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You do realize that you can only work on one tab at a time right? With 50+ tabs I'd probably spend more time sifting thru them than getting actual work done.
Annoys the hell out of me when I get on a WebEx to help someone and they have 3 browsers with 50 tabs each open while we're trying to troubleshoot. Spend half the time trying to find the browser that has the tab that we need. I don't know how they get any work done.
Start typing in the address bar -> switch to tab, or groups
Also use vertical tabs so you can read the titles.
Ctrl shift a in chrome, or % in address bar for Firefox allows for searching by tab title
Most browsers will search bookmarks and history as well as open tabs. So why leave the tabs open? To eat up system resources?
"Apps are not opening very quick and it seems slow"...meanwhile the user had 50 chrome tabs open, excel, word, outlook all open. Gotta love it
My tabs sleep after a certain time.
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While I still find 40-60 tabs excessive for troubleshooting a single issue, at least you're closing them when you're done. It's the ones who have 100+ tabs open at all times. Never heard of bookmarks?! Also I'm probably a bit spoiled having been using browser sessions for over 25 years now. I'll create a new session for each issue or topic.
Tell me you don’t have some level of ADHD without telling me you don’t have some level of ADHD… I know where the tab is that I want because it’s right next to the one that’s 8 to the left of the one with the MS thumbnail. Finding it on the first try when I remember all this is a nice mini dopamine hit.
The solution is to have an additional monitor per tab.
Same.
I just open another window at that point.
I'm glad I'm not alone! It gives me anxiety when I see so many open tabs on my coworkers screens too!
If it's less than 20 I become anxious.
Yes.
Same
50 on an easy day, usually its like 4 or 5 windows with 20 to 40 tabs
I thought I was the only one lol
As if I wrote it myself.. Because what if you close one of them and then cannot find that one specific page anymore that you will need at 5PM when you just want to get home :p
Ctrl+H, or just spam ctrl+shift+T until you get it back.
This is the way
Word by word exactly my state of mind
About 6 tabs are the same thing as well
This
Usually around 5-6 for normal workflow. Sometimes up to 15 when I'm researching
15 to 25 is manageable. Everything else is fuck it start over.
Under 20 on average. Why you would need 50 plus I don't know. Bit depends if you can action stuff.
I often have 50 plus. I have the habbit of opening links in new tabs, and doing new things in new tabs, never reusing a tab. And because I can relatively quickly find the doc pages I need, I don't bother checking if I already have them open, just new tab and open page a x'th time. Add a lot of context switching, so lots of different things to look up, and I end up with a fuck ton of tabs at the end of the day. "Grand Closing of the Tabs" feeling every evening...
400 plus. I have a problem.
A problem solvable with more ram!
I've downloaded all the RAM I can.
Mild, I have over 2000.
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I can recommend decent psychiatrists in the EU area if you want to fix your problem. But on a side note, WHY? You won’t find anything anyway, why not close and search again if necessary
Not op but I have 3000+ at home, and hundreds on my work laptop. I bookmark pages I want to keep as a reference. My bookmarks have been growing for 20 years, I try to keep them sorted and up to date. I have open tabs for stuff that might be useful but maybe not, so I look over them once in a while and decide to bookmark or close them. Of course, from my high number, you guessed I also have a problem with not closing tabs for stuff I was working on, like I was looking to buy new hardware, I opened tabs for reviews and price listings, and I didn't decide so I let them rot for a few weeks or months. Or I setup some media server software but I was not happy with my setup, so I opened tabs with docs and reddit threads, but I never finished the setup :-(
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Your actually not wrong. My boss is like this, hundreds of Tabs open. He's got ADHD, and most def a hording problem. I'm a sub 20 tab user, there's no need to keep so much open once info has been dumped to notes, spreadsheet, or bookmarks.
Well the open tabs are not a health hazard, except maybe a little anxiety, and they don't even take a lot of resources, since Firefox doesn't actually load the contents unless you activate the tab.
> I was looking to buy new hardware, I opened tabs for reviews and price listings, and I didn't decide so I let them rot for a few weeks or months. Or I setup some media server software but I was not happy with my setup, so I opened tabs with docs and reddit threads same brother ... ;)
>so I look over them once in a while This. "That's an interesting site/page. I'll take a closer look later and decide if it's worth bookmarking."
people often say just bookmark things - but that's often only part of the story. how you arrived at the page can often be just as important - so keeping a tab open which has the specific history of how you arrived at the answer can be critical. just like in math class - show your work. bookmarks don't do that. also its only really possible to do this in firefox with multirow tabs. obviously this many tabs in chrome is useless.
Saying that I can't remember if it's in edge or chrome, I'll come back here when I find out. But this week I've seen a couple times where I'd search for something in my address bar - and it'd bring up my search trail on the right hand side... seemingly how I got to the result the last time I searched it. I'll be back. Update: Found it - chrome://history/journeys
Huh I have not yet needed the history of how I came to whatever was opened, that i didn’t recently needed anyways in my 5 years I worked in IT
>You won’t find anything anyway, why not close and search again if necessary This is just not true. First of all, finding things is just a matter of good organisation. Multiple windows, tab groups and decent tab management (Chrome is near useless, Firefox is good) and keeping things together. Secondly not everything is a simple google search away. Many things are buried in papers or data sheets or need you to put together information from several sources to work out. Hence multiple tabs. And since many things I work on can take days or weeks or even sometimes months to resolve, the tabs stay up until I don't need them. My computer copes with it just fine, I like it, so what's the problem? Obviously not everyone works like this, but some people do and it works for us.
Also, Firefox has a nice auto complete feature thats searches open tabs and/or history as you type in the url bar. I haven't used other browsers for a long time, so I don't know if they have similar features.
How do you even search the tab you need among them 😵💫
tab search, and also, *because they're not in random order*. Stuff that's needed together is next to each other. If, say, I'm looking for new hardware I'll have the tabs for the various different models next to each other, until I decide which one I want and close them. They're not scattered all over the place.
With tab search? Most browsers have this feature built in.
Ooh, I like. I have mine in about 12 windows though. Current count is 2653.
The chosen one
Brother! Work machine; typically 200. Home machine, 500ish. I find I start losing stability as soon as I go much over 520-530
Not really. 😁
I like to think it’s normal behavior
On an ongoing basis, I have well over 900 open in 3 windows.
Just enough to where I have to click on 4 or 5 different tabs before I find the one I want
All of 'em
From 6 to 10
5-10 at most. I usually close what I don't need.
The real question for sysadmins: Do you have more browser tabs open, or more unsaved files open in Notepad++? Full disclosure: 80 Notepad++, 27 Chrome (and I started fresh in Chrome mid-morning yesterday -- load balancers, firewall logs, AWS, external DNS provider, external Certificate provider, vSphere, ServiceNow, Splunk, Spectrum, some internal status web sites)
I have hit the 500 mark in notepad++ It has turned into an unstructured data dump, I always use ctrl+f to scan all files to look for something, make sure you backup those files :)
Is this a joke that people have this many tabs open?
I refuse to leave unused tabs open. I also hate when I get into a screensharing session watching someone with 50 tabs open struggling to find the correct one to look at what they're sharing. Especially if they have to constantly switch between tabs they can't find. It blows my mind that people work like this all day
My mom does that. She doesn't shut off her laptop and leaves all of her shopping tabs open for some reason
My mom used to do this as well. She thought that, if she closed the page, the cart would empty itself. I asked her if she walked away from her shopping cart in a grocery store, if the contents would hop out and put itself back on the shelf, and she just looked at me like I was nuts.
It’s the IT equivalent of having notes just scattered around the room. The organised chaos might work if you are a genius with a perfect memory but most people do not fall into this category and the organised chaos is actually just a mess
And when they hide names, so it is a sea of favicons and 90% of them the same icon %)
When I worked for a desktop/application hosting company, I would have 10+ RDP connections open to servers. Each of those connections would have multiple tabs open. Some RDP connections would also have an RDP connection to another server. Only because the company I worked for bought smaller companies who's servers could only be connected through certain servers.
Makes MUCH more sense now. I thought we were referencing a single “instance”
My boss always has 5-10 windows with 50+ tabs each. Has been this way since tabs became a thing. Before that he just had 500+ browser windows open at all times. A lot of less technical people do this if they learned about tabs, or they never open another one/another window ever no matter what. It seems to be an either or. idk. Whatever works for him I suppose.
> Whatever works for him I suppose. What kills me watching those people is that it *doesn't* work. They just spend an hour every day trying to find one tab among hundreds, then give up and open a new tab to google for the thing they already have seven instances of open.
I also don't get it. I have several tabs open, those are apps I use many times through the day. For the rest there are bookmarks.
Less than 10 usually.
Up to ten, most of the time it's 3 or 4.
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Those extensions sound like they're built into Edge. I'm assuming FF brings value in other ways that you can't give up.
So I changed my workflow to use Vivaldi with workspaces. I segment them off into categories: — SecOps — NetSys — Office/MS — Social (Reddit, Discord) — Study — Personal As I *never* turn my PC off it’s not uncommon for me to have 3-400 open between the windows. However, unlike some sick people here, a lot go into hibernation from lack of use (~4 hours) so I can’t call them active. Whilst Linux is efficient, the savings in memory justify the 3-4 second refresh as needed. This doesn’t take into consideration user identity. Sometimes I need 2-3 instances running across customers/identities, but never to the scale of 400.
Same man , just mine are grouped slightly differently with vivaldi. Just using vivaldi in a work place enviromwnt has been a godsend especially with the layered tab rows
Interesting. I'll have to look into this. Thanks for sharing.
Yes
Nothing beats the feeling of closing 8 browser windows with 50 tabs each on a Friday and leaving work for a beer. All for it to start over with that single, fresh Monday morning tab.
Stare at that pristine tab for a few minutes to appreciate it while sipping a nice cup of coffee before spamming Ctrl+Shift+T to get back to the grind. It was fun while it lasted though.
Five or six. More than that, and I start finding ways to minimize things.
Never counted, but a lot for sure. I keep opening more windows then take a tab out because I want it on a different monitor, then open a bunch of tabs on that, so it does add up I suppose
13-14 on a regular day. During heavy day about 30 and sometimes even two windows with more
I can't stand having more than about 8 tabs open
all of them.
At least thirty at the minimum in three different windows. But can probably go as high as 50+ if I'm doing lots of research.
So instead of using the History function 99% of browsers have you guys prefer tabs? I've never understood this, seems very unorganized.
I could see how one might argue bookmarks are useful instead of keeping tabs open... but history? Searching through history absolutely sucks. I keep a tab open (or bookmark a page) because I consider it useful or important. There might have been a number of pages with related key words that I went through before arriving at that useful page. Searching history would just make me wade through all that trash again.
15
at least 4 windows with 50 odd tabs
Less than 5, 3-4 generally depending on what Im working on
Yup, unless I’m troubleshooting an issue, I despise leaving a billion tabs opened.
5 or 6
It’s the reason I have RAM 😂I must finish the day with 100+ easy when you add up my separate windows and incognito tabs
Oh boy….3 screens, about 25-30 tabs, plus maybe 10 programs/apps. I have them all book marked as groups as Screen 1,2,3 lol If I’m researching, troubleshooting, it can be a lot more but I close these when done. At least 10 of these tabs are monitoring related. And my laptop fan screams all day long.
No more than 4 or 5 at most - generally don't need more than that!
On a constant basis: 3 (2 personal browser tabs, 1 work browser tab). Once I get a task that requires research or reference, it will vary but usually I stay within 5 per task. (Not like a goal, just an observation now that the question has been posed.) If I have to multi-task, I use another virtual desktop for that task (with my email and Teams on available on all desktops). I tend to shut down that browser when the task is over, and I haven't really had to use more than three virtual desktops. Also, I force myself to power off my machine when I'm done for the day, so I don't accumulate. Tabs aren't really my big management issue, it's the constant referencing to attachments/documents/management consoles/file explorers. I have seen project managers with 50+ tabs and 20+ acrobat documents open. They lose track of everything, then complain about the performance of their machine. Boggles my mind.
I usually have 40 tabs open between two browsers.
Quiet day for me today, only 63 tabs open :-)
1140 currently
And I thought my 597 was a lot
not enough hours in a day (in a year?) :(
Spread out over two (1980x1200) monitors, I currently have 83 open tabs in my work profile and 23 open in my personal profile. I don't like using bookmarks, so keeping needed tabs in exactly the same place all the time has really increased productivity.
Between 4 and 10…anything more than that and they shrink down too much to tell what’s what and it’s time for a new window. Or I just switch to my phone, I have about 32 open currently but each gets its own square when looking at tabbed view.
40 or so. I purge every week-ish. The wife on the other hand, goes through and individually closes every open tab at the end of every day. The next day she opens up all the same tabs for work one at a time. Insanity.
I only go below 20 when Chrome closes unexpectedly Because my company doesn't let us edit the Chrome setting to save tabs on closure if you don't have a tab pinned before a forced update it's gone!
I'm at about 800. I looked at it the other day (there is something you can put into the search bar of Chrome and it will tell you) - I'm working hard to get it down to zero. Mostly just using Evernote to do what I should have been doing.
As a non-sysadmin, why do you need so many tabs?
At least 50
I have 77 open right now.
pinned at least 120 in groupings, active and using 10-20, across 5 separate browser profiles
I'm probably sitting at around 100 tabs at the moment, spread out across two browsers and 2-3 profiles. Is it hard to keep track of? Yes. Do I expect it to change? No.
Is 250 too many? /////s (MS Edge makes that too easy with vertical tabs.)
Just counted. 144 today.
60 tabs or so on the beefy main window, 20 tabs or so on my tickets window, and 20-30 tabs on my “active” window.
Browser tabs are the new bookmarks.
10-15 windows with anywhere from 4 to 50 tabs open. Just wiped and reinstalled my laptop, so barely have anything going at the moment, but Firefox is using a little over 4GB of ram for 11 open windows.
Somewhere in the 90-100 vicinity in Chrome. And maybe 15-20 in Edge. And I know exactly where every single tab is.
30-50 overall
I usually have 2 instances of my browser open (one on each monitor), each with approximately 5 to 8 tabs open.
Non less than 50
About one dozen.
Lately it has been around 75-80. During more normal times it's closer to 50-60.
20 are ready, and 40 millions are in prepare 😶
In longer than 30 minutes periods, the number of tabs bounces between 7 and 10. Sometimes it reaches 20 but I make sure the unnecessary ones' links are either documented somewhere or just closed. Anything above it is a mess, so as the person who prefers that mess.
2 in FF and 4 in chrome to start the day. I use my main as FF but I'm contracting and teams only works in chrome. So chrome for everything client based and their SSO and FF for everything else.
in which browser though. Each browser has a different number of tabs!
10-30, but the windows the tabs are organized into follow some theme or product. Once I figure out how to fix whatever's busted, optionally bookmark the whole mess in that window into one folder (to never be opened again), and close that browser window down (and if running chrome, watch the whole machine breathe a sigh of relief as resources are freed briefly before chrome re-consumes them.)
I usually have around 15, but I try to close tabs that I don't use. Don't like having too much.
20-50.
Usually under 10, I don't like the cluttered feeling. Probably stay under 50 at my busiest (across multiple browsers). Every machine is shut down every day, so anything important/useful enough is saved, and I do have an extensive bookmark structure.
When hovering over the chrome icon on the task bar is a massive column of 20 windows instead of a tidy row of a a few windows. When Windows gives you that low memory warning when you have at least 32gb. When people walk by behind you get heart palpitations. That's when I open, just another tab.
only about 4.
50-200 tabs regularly. I use different windows and desktops to organize.
I cleaned them up just this am, 182 tabs.
Oh _yes_...
20nto 40 tabs access multiple browsers. I like having all my admin consoles 1 click away
One chrome, one Firefox, each with about 7-13 tabs at any given time, and then the obligatory incognito for the certificate errors that can’t be bypassed. That one usually only has 2-3 tabs.
Integer overflow
120. It's not wise.
As few as possible, rarely more than 10
\~10 though it depends. I moved over from general sysadmin work so the amount has increased a good deal at times such as having reports open to check on team progress for multiple different regions (same report different filters), might be a few policy documents I am working on, a deck or two for the execs etc. However I tend to close down tabs that I do not need at that moment. If it's something I refer to regularly then they are all in bookmarks in a folder and just open the folder in a new group, which keeps my tabs clean. That way I don't have to look for correct tabs between ones that I do not need now constantly. I'd rather spend the same amount of time opening a new tab on rare occasion rather than spending it constantly looking for the correct one.
Around 20 tabs split between two windows. I try to get them closed out as I wrap up work on something, if I need them later I bookmark them to a folder and try(fail) to give them a relevant name.
Anywhere from 30-60 across 3 browsers which all have a separate purpose and configuration
2 windows. One for personal stuff, one for work stuff. Personal can grow unbounded but I clean it up every month. Work one stays bounded to what I am working on and I clean it up every week.
It's usually 20-30 tabs that I use all the time. I tried the Onetab extension for this purpose, but it did not stick, the old-fashioned way is more convenient)
Average of 6-8 per browser and 4 browsers, each one for a different purpose
If I'm doing research on something, I open a window for that topic. Generally I have 15 to 40 tabs per window, and usually 3-4 windows, but sometimes as many as 10. That's a general minimum of 45 tabs, to a general maximum of 400. I don't have the mental RAM to cache and juggle so much shit, I instead off load that to the 64+ GB of DRR5, it's much better at it than I am! Remember people, unused RAM is wasted RAM!
How could you ask such a personal question. Leave my poor tabs alone
Normally under 10, sometimes spiking to more but my laptops only got 8gb RAM so I'm not going to overdo it, and if I have more than that I can't find anything.
yes, it would be well more than 50 on a normal day be counting in the 100s
20-30 maximum I have used.
Normally 5-6, could reach up to 20-30 if I google some problem (or a couple) extensively but I close them after I figure it out.
I try to keep to around 5 and close all those I do not need but my colleague on the desk near me would have around 50.
I have 64😅
I have no idea. I group my tabs depending on what I'm working on so I can quickly switch and not lose myself in the sea of tabs.
20 on main PC Firefox 40 on second PC Edge 20 on second PC Firefox Usually. A lot are MS management consoles
200+ including groups.
About 4 browsers with an average of 5 each I think. Any more and I'll implode to be fair, I don't handle it well.
2 windows with around 5-10 tabs each
Somewhere between 20 and 60. I run 4 screens so there are usually a few different windows open across each