How many tabs do you keep open at the same time?

1 Toby1VC 3 8/8/2025, 10:44:10 PM

Currently I only have 42 tabs, of those only 36 are loaded. But sometimes I can have hundreds. Some users of my Grasshopper extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/ ) work with thousands of tabs.

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al_borland · 26m ago

At some point it’s faster/easier to search again than to find a tab among hundreds or thousands.

I probably have between 3 and 20 open typically. Once it’s starts getting beyond that I get pretty anxious to finish whatever has be opening so many tabs, so I can clean things up and reset before moving on to the next thing.

adelementary · 22m ago

In which browser? Tor, Edge, Firefox, DuckDuckGo or Safari?

JohnFen · 20m ago

I see your stealth ad. I'll answer anyway. :)

Usually one. If I'm actively resarching something, it can go up to a dozen or so temporarily. In that situation, I'll also usually have multiple instances of the browser going to segregate topics. I tend to prefer multiple windows over multiple tabs because it makes it easier for me to navigate and keep more than one thing visible at a time.

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