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Zero. I think I’m the odd one out here. I have a habit of closing all tabs once I’m done, always have.

my firefox app gave up counting and just shows an infinity symbol :(

I think this is a generational question. I'm anal about tabs being left open like a light in the house being on

Fun fact: if you open more than 100 tabs in chrome (at least on android), it no longer shows the number of open tabs, it just says ":D".

If it's incognito tabs, it says ";)".

I haven't seen a number in years. This means I'd have to count manually which I'm not going to do. Hope this answers your question sufficiently.

5k tabs

At 1k tabs firefox was snappy and responsive, but at 5k tabs it was bad, very unstable, buggy and sluggish.
Firefox would crash often even doing simple tasks, some times it took 2 or 3 tries to open firefox. scrolling through all the tabs a couple of minutes.
But all good things must come to an end. Now I close any extra tabs, have 5 - 30 tabs open.

How do people manage to have more than 6 tabs open? What is this talk about 500-1000+?

100's. It's easy when using a tool like tree tabs.

I have several different ongoing projects with different avenues of research and I use it like a temporary store until I organise and store them.

Usually 2. I close them all when I'm done.

4

if tab not relevant to task then am close

Had 300 on my laptop a while ago, finished up a project which let me drop it down to 160.

On my desktop I have 1,300 or so. Both of them on a single Firefox window with Sidebery

136

Most are unloaded. Using Firefox and sidebery on Linux with 32GB of RAM.

Zero. Maybe it's the OCD, but I never ever leave open a tab I'm not actively using, even if it means I open and close the same few tabs every five minutes for 8 hours every day.

Yeah, probably the ocd lmao.

Seeing that many tabs gives me actual anxiety.

This one. I used to have a bunch of tabs pinned but having to restore them frequently just became a hassle, so I added them to my bookmarks.

I use a browser extension that closes the least recently used tab after 15 minutes. It stops closing when it reaches five for the current window.

I don't think I'm missing anything.

I just closed 47. All of them Amazon...

My best friend is having a babby...

Xmas...

Starting a small business and tools are needed...

I just moved to south Florida, and the bugs are the size of house cats, so I require a salt shotgun...

SO. MANY. HOLIDAY. DEALS.

Like I've never been a shopping addict, but I had a budget of about $1000 for all of that, and I blew through it QUICK.

I could see how it could be addictive, but I do know when to walk away.

Bare minimum is 7 cus they are pinned. These are tabs I reference constantly. 2 for monitoring servers, 2 for emails, 2 for chat, 1 for lofi girl.

After that it's just based on the current project. So anywhere from 1 for browsing to 20 while doing research.

Add another 7 if you include my work computer for the various sites I work out of.

I try to close anything not currently used quite often and just store things in bookmarks.

More than I can count thats for sure.

Zero. Not using a browser right now but I usually only have 1-2. Anything more than 6 tabs open and I start getting turned around.

Zero. I don't have a browser open, just a phone app.

After closing a dozen left over from looking up various topics over the last few days, 164 tabs, some of which are probably 5 years old. I swear I'll look at them someday!

Zero across my phone and desktop at the moment. Having more than around 5 tabs open at once does not sit well with me.

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Usually one, maximum 10.

At current count, 911. I used to sit around 3000 but managed to shave it down, now it's creeping back up.

Too many things I want to download or read later and not as much time as I used to have. I have been making an effort to use alternative methods though such as bookmarks, YouTube playlists, or just, you know, doing the thing in the moment.

69 (okay actually it was 67 but I opened a few more to make it the funny number)

8 windows, ~17 tabs.

Usually not more then 30 before I close most of them with "Close all tabs to the right".

I have browsing history so don't need tabs.

Six.

I organize my tabs by topic window (small project, chunk of work for a larger project, related idea) then kick them into onetab as a bundle with a short description when I'm done with whatever it is I needed them for.

I typically have 5-30 tabs open in topic windows at any time but I can open onetab and ctrl-f to find anything I've saved over the last 7 or 8 years. There must be 5000 tabs in there at this point.

7 at most

No more than around 10, I actively try to keep the number of tabs I have in check. Sometimes I quit the browser and reopen tabs again as a way clear my head.

24 on my mobile browser. Not too bad, really.