I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.
When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.
Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?
The only instances of this I have seen (on mobile) were not very tech-savvy people who click links in messages and apps, rarely open the browser, and/or don’t understand how to use the browser to begin with.
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. They also tend to have a thousand notifications waiting for them. They are basically ignoring the notification system entirely. Pointless spam pops up all the time and the one time they actually receive a message from someone, it’s impossible to know because they never look at the notifications. I guess the red dots are the only way these people know someone has sent them anything.
People like that would hate using SailfishOS, because it’s not holding your hand at all. If you leave everything open, it’s going to suck the RAM and battery in no time, and it’s all your fault. That’s one of the few mobile OSs that made me feel like I had an actual computer in my pocket.