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7 at most

On my phone I have 4 tabs but on my laptop I have 4 windows open each having 10 tabs open

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

1. The way people use tabs is bizarre to me. My ex would have so many open that it was really difficult to navigate between them. Seems like a better idea to use features like bookmarks or reading list.

Usually about 10-30. It depends. I have a minimum of 6010 tabs open for stuff I check several times a day, like mail, news feeds, and such. Then I have a few working projects, like Google docs. Then some "temporary tabs" that expand from 10 to 30, as a reminder of tasks I have to complete or get back to someone on, only to shrink them down later in the day.

16, counting this one that I'm about to close.

None. I bookmark stuff if I need to come back.

5-6 per open project at work and other work, so, about a thousand.

Really about 50-80 in 20 windows because I've only just learned of tab groups.

10 max per window: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dustman/

And no duplicate tabs on a window: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer/

None. I open as many as I need then close every single one of them before closing my browser. That also includes my phone browser

I mean I love tabs, use em all the time. But currently my computer has just 1 open.

I don't use em as bookmarks to get back to. People seem to just hoard them. And for no reason.

You can't tell me there's a good reason to keep hundreds open. It's just laziness at that point.

If I leave a tab open for more than a couple of days, I bookmark it and then close it.

mostly less than five.

but if I'm programming it's around 50-70

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.

Android: 82 active, I-lost-count-after-90 inactive

Personal: right now I have 6 open. I might get up to 15-20 if I'm going down a rabbithole of some sort.

On a side note, Windows 11 finally put in an option to go back to normal Windows taskbar buttons so I can actually read tab titles from the taskbar:

Work (software engineer): sometimes dozens if I'm deep in the weeds with loads of reference pages open/etc.

One

24, including the one I opened for this thread.

6

A few hundred. At the end of a “project/idea/thing” I’ll bookmark the entire set, dated, described, and close them all at once, things always come back in need later. It’s very satisfying.

For normal day to day browsing I have a window with about 15 pinned tabs that I just cycle through in the morning catching up on stuff and then close that window.

:D (I'm using my phone)

Too many. And I have honestly no idea.

I usually have a minimum of 8 tabs open, but right now it's something like 24. I've recently gotten into a bad habit of opening tabs & not getting around to them until maybe a week or two, maybe sometimes more. I really need to sort out my tab game & start being more productive....

Eleven. Kinda felt like that was too many though.

probably around 300, split into 2 windows, one "main" and one that's effectively my YouTube to watch list

Typically 1~10. Four right now (all four are Lemmy: inbox, another thread, front page, this thread)

I close them as the tabs bar feels cluttered and/or I see no reason to keep them open.

Never more than ten. Currently, seven.

As someone who is anal about closing tabs, the answers in this thread hurt my soul.

Genuine question, why so many tabs? What are you using them all for??