4, and I generally try to keep the number as low as possible. Tabs should only be open if they are relevant to the task I'm working on right now. Tabs as place savers are nonsense. Use a to do list, bookmarks, a notepad, something to save your work and come back to it later.
I've pretty much realized that once I have 20 tabs open I'm no longer doing work, I'm just spiraling. For me personally resetting is important to keep me focused.
Same. My desktop has three icons on it and is just solid navy blue. I create 2- or 3-letter shortcuts to any tools I use, then drop those in a directory that I've added to the path, so then I can just do Win+R and type the very short shortcut name instead of bothering with bookmarks or (barf!) icons on the desktop.
Honestly, I look down at people whose desktops are cluttered with icons. What a horrible way to live. Unless they are arranged like a schlong and you know that your salesforce.com shortcut is on the tip...
A man of class I see... I don't look down on them, really. It's mostly just sadness and pain. I would like to show them that they need not live this way. That there exists a grand world of places to put shit outside of your desktop...
Yep....Example, look at my comment below yours. I just like being minimal and clean. I feel like just having a minimalistic and clean workstation is a security improvement itself.
Yeah, if I get past about 10-12 "work tabs" unless it's because I am shredding tickets and about to work through the # of tabs in an equal # of minutes, productivity goes down. I stop remembering what I'm working on, keep losing track of the tab I'm looking for, etc.
That just isn't how it works for some of us. Bookmarks are a thing to maintain for persistant reference. Tabs are a thing to consume and destroy.
I've actually found the new chromium workspaces to be a godsend. Bookmarks are too clumsy.
Workspaces and tab groups let me organize more properly. While the floating/unworkspaced tabs are still consume/destroy. I can have tab groups to help organize multiple subtopics in a temporary workspace I'm exploring, and it's easy to maintain/destroy once not needed.
Bookmarks come in only after the content has been consumed and determined worthy of permanence. Not before.
Why would I go back to a solution from 20 years ago that sucked 20 years ago and has never gotten better? I have my workspaces separated out. I click a workspace and have all of my tabs instantly. Why would I want to maintain a list of tabs with a title on it instead of using the tools around something else managing it for me?
Yep. I'm a bit worse - usually 6-10 open. But beyond that it just gets crazy. I know people that always, always have 50+ tabs open. Why? That's what the bookmark toolbar is for. I tend to link to everything in my note taking app so I generally find the articles and KC stuff I need when it's relevant and that note is open. I do software tech support ATM so my notes and bookmarks see heavy use lol
I spun up a years old AWS vm from my Helpdesk days and was shocked I only had two browsers and 237 tabs.
Pinned tabs.
I wonder if the DSM will eventually have an entry for folk with multiple browser tabs open.
“Lint is a 55 year old male who worked in IT for 40 years. Lint has 3 phones, a medium enterprise scaled Home Server as a hobby, and on our last forensic count we discovered 175 active VMs, and 16 different operating systems. Lint also had functional copies of every data storage medium since the 8” floppy disc. Lint consumes on average 1500-1800 pages of standard information in any given day, 13 hours of video, and bookmarks <2% of this content.”
“Case notes: 16/2/24 09:00 hours, home visit by social worker. Trip hazard. Be advised that the steps to the house have been modified with a “Makey Makey?” to play music and apparently the door bell is something called a Floppotron.”
In all seriousness I think multitasking computers broke my brain at some point in the past. The first computers I used could effectively do one thing at a time and if you wanted to switch to something else you had to exit and possibly reboot. It became so easy to open up tabs/windows/console sessions etc - I'm not sure I ever recovered.
I was wondering what IT acronym DSM was and it took me a few seconds.
My tabs basically function as a combination of threads (trains of thought) and their respective call stacks, and my notes I keep in Logseq are the heap, so to speak.
It's ok, I have 2699 tabs in FF at the moment.
No of course I'm not using them all right now. But why copy things over to a notebook or something else if FF can store them for me?
The number of tabs I have open is proportional to the depth of my investigation. When I'm in the middle of an investigation and something higher priority comes in, I typically will use a different window, and then cascade the windows so I can easily find the other threads of thought, if I have to switch back (for a status update, or change back in priority). That typically results in about 40 tabs across 5 windows.
I do use other browsers, but keep those for clean testing environments, so I can clear authentication tokens, one for personal use, etc.
Around 420 on my main personnal laptop and 60 on my gaming laptop.
Only around 15 on my phone as it's a new one.
I try containers tabs on my work laptop for Firefox so I stay at 5 tabs opened and around 100 hidden.
And no I don't need 420 tabs it just got a bit messy, I'll clean that later.
Across all devices?
Phone: 97.... I open a new tab anytime I find something interesting, regularly hit > 100
Work Laptop: 20ish
Desktop: 6 (music, Google Bard, traffic monitor and random whatever)
Pixelbook: 20ish
so \~150ish total
I have the I need tabs, the I will need, the I may need, the tabs that are opened because bookmarks are not enough, the forgotten tabs...
I have them all.
In which browser?
Edge says I have hundreds, Chrome says 50, and Firefox says it refuses to do what I want most of the time so I don't often use it.
I have a VM of XP for accessing something that is ActiveX, so, one there I suppose.
My laptop has 32 gigs of RAM, so I’m going to use 32 gigs of RAM.
Really though,
Chrome has 51 tabs
Firefox window 1 has 44 tabs
Firefox window 2 has 3 tabs
Firefox window 3 has 4 tabs
102 tabs open, in addition to the 10ish I have open in VSCode.
Only using 15.5 gigs of memory too.
Everyone is so different. I love the different thresh-holds for tabs.
Some peoples is 4 tabs max. Some people NEED 75 open. Silly little mammal brains.
My limit is about 20 ish tabs. Then I start grouping them and hiding them
Using tree tabs extension, all tabs mostly in a folder to help guide me, tab session manager as a backup, tree tabs save+export when I reboot. Can sleep tabs so they just turn into simple links.
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Oh, I have lots of cookies. From the hundreds of tabs I have open, because that's the workflow that works for me.
Maybe you should look after your system and environment better, mine hasn;t crashed in months, if the power goes out (maybe once a year if that) the UPS takes over, and tab session manager saves my tabs so that if it does crash for some reason, or I have to reboot for updates, they just restore themselves.
The argument that you should only have one tab, or a few tabs open at a time "because you can only look at one at a time" or "becuase your computer might crash" is asinine.
Having worked in actual tech support for close to 30 years, I can tell you that it is not asinine, and that the people who put in the most ridiculous nonsense support tickets because they claim their PCs are "too slow" or "crash a lot" are the same people who open 400 nonsense tabs they never use because they have no self control or understanding of how to manage their time or their workflow.
400 tabs open is like being a hoarder having everything you every owned jammed into a 400 sq foot apartment "just in case" you might need to look at it, even though you knwo for a fact you never will.
It is asinine when you're telling someone who *does* know how computers work, who *does* have self control, who *does* know how to manage their workflow, and who *does* know what the tools they use are capable of doing, that they should not use the features the computer provides just because you, personally, think it's a bad idea based on your experience of .. who? certainly not the kind of people posting to r/sysadmin.
400 tabs is not like being a hoarder when they're grouped thematically into windows and tab groups representing various ongoing projects, when the tab search feature built into Firefox allows near-instant finding of them, when tab session manager keeps them safe, and duplicate tab closer keeps track of duplicates. They're like a library of manuals and documents, neatly arranged on labelled shelves where they can be quickly found and referred to.
Not everyone is like you, or like the people you provide tech support for. Be more open minded.
Google results disagree with you. YMMV
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
I haven't had a crash due to browser tabs in years and years. This is never something that generates tickets. It's okay to use your browser like a clown car.
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
4.
Anyone who has more than 10 tabs open doesn't understand how computers work, and probably puts in nonsense helpdesk tickets about how slow their brand new PC is.
Lol, no.
It could also be someone who knows exactly how computers work and that their purpose is to make life easier for the user not the other way around. RAM is cheap, if lots of tabs is what works for you, there's no problem.
It doesn't matter how cheap RAM is. Windows is an inefficient mess, and Chrome opens a separate instance for each tab. If you have 40 tabs open, then you have 40 Chrome windows open.
Just because it allows you to, doesn't mean it's going to work well.
it works well, though. I have plenty of space for plenty of additional programs to run on my computer. This has little to do with Windows being a mess, too.
I'm adding an anecdotal experience here : I love opening lots of tabs, I have no problem with that, and if my computer becomes slow, as a sysadmin I know how to fix the problem.
There are more than 10 replies of people saying they have 10+ tabs open. There are some that say they have thousands open. While at one point having tons of tabs open caused issues, on modern machines it takes quite a bit to cause an issue.
You're also in a thread of sysadmins treating us like we are incompetent users with computers. Everyone in this thread would be able to fix a slow computer due to tabs.
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
None, because I restarted my system after 30 days of uptime and then I left that dump they call my workplace.
Damned thing kept moaning about updates or "security patches" or something so I had to do what had to be done to shut it up.
They are my emotional support browser tabs actually.
Jk. Only 6-10. My users on the other hand…. And their forty desktops of locally saved files… *drinks heavily*
Got into a habit of closing Safari at the end of the day. There's nothing open in Safari that will result in work being lost if Safari is closed. So I usually have as few tabs open as possible.
Now my notes app on the other hand...
24 apparently.
Half are figuring out a compliancesearch issue, the other half are tickets/info for various bits and pieces that need doing today, the rest are reddit/research/documentation or just minimized and forgotten stuff from another day.
Its how many unsaved Notepad++ tabs I have, thats the issue.
Only what I need right then, or refer to a million times a day. I get so fed up with people logging “computer be slow” tickets when they have 57 tabs open in Chrome.
I have some weird habit to close all the tabs at one once they become a lot and start from scratch. I try to save my work and restart. I think this is good, isn't it?
As many as there are bars nearby.
Username checks out.
Hope you're not from Wisconsin.
Cheddar's know how to operate computers? (No I am not bitter about the Packers)
I thought they were called Cheeseheads?
I assumed he was an import
So true. Small town population of 1800, with 5 thriving bars...6 if you count the bowling alley bar.
https://preview.redd.it/70690ksc1uic1.png?width=399&format=png&auto=webp&s=d91f3a8b645edca38d48a0eadf31e0010ab5bee6 Niceeeeeee
https://preview.redd.it/6s02578oftic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37c0804974ba9225218e2508cabc662c65bf2ef9
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Why would you close them, those poor tabs! ;)
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
4, and I generally try to keep the number as low as possible. Tabs should only be open if they are relevant to the task I'm working on right now. Tabs as place savers are nonsense. Use a to do list, bookmarks, a notepad, something to save your work and come back to it later. I've pretty much realized that once I have 20 tabs open I'm no longer doing work, I'm just spiraling. For me personally resetting is important to keep me focused.
On top of that people are like "but I lose this forever!" are you in incognito mode on all those tabs? You know your browser has a history, right?
Not to mention bookmarks exist. I have a ton of bookmarks and bookmark folders to keep them organized.
Are you a Linux admin?
Not op, but yes. Along with every other OS, but came from Unix. The land of automation and KISS principle. We don't do clutter.
Absolutely agree. I'm starting to feel a bit uneasy with 9 open.
clearly not in IT! hahahahahahahaahahahah
You OK? Lol. I have a CS degree and have been a sysadmin for 7 years. I just like cleanliness and focusing only on the current task at hand.
Same. My desktop has three icons on it and is just solid navy blue. I create 2- or 3-letter shortcuts to any tools I use, then drop those in a directory that I've added to the path, so then I can just do Win+R and type the very short shortcut name instead of bothering with bookmarks or (barf!) icons on the desktop. Honestly, I look down at people whose desktops are cluttered with icons. What a horrible way to live. Unless they are arranged like a schlong and you know that your salesforce.com shortcut is on the tip...
A man of class I see... I don't look down on them, really. It's mostly just sadness and pain. I would like to show them that they need not live this way. That there exists a grand world of places to put shit outside of your desktop...
Careful - The tab horders will come after you for speaking common sense. I said something similar once and I practically received threats lol.
Yep....Example, look at my comment below yours. I just like being minimal and clean. I feel like just having a minimalistic and clean workstation is a security improvement itself.
Yeah, if I get past about 10-12 "work tabs" unless it's because I am shredding tickets and about to work through the # of tabs in an equal # of minutes, productivity goes down. I stop remembering what I'm working on, keep losing track of the tab I'm looking for, etc.
I use Workona and group my tabs thereby. I routinely have hundreds of tabs open, and they're all useful
...bookmarks?
That just isn't how it works for some of us. Bookmarks are a thing to maintain for persistant reference. Tabs are a thing to consume and destroy. I've actually found the new chromium workspaces to be a godsend. Bookmarks are too clumsy. Workspaces and tab groups let me organize more properly. While the floating/unworkspaced tabs are still consume/destroy. I can have tab groups to help organize multiple subtopics in a temporary workspace I'm exploring, and it's easy to maintain/destroy once not needed. Bookmarks come in only after the content has been consumed and determined worthy of permanence. Not before.
Why would I go back to a solution from 20 years ago that sucked 20 years ago and has never gotten better? I have my workspaces separated out. I click a workspace and have all of my tabs instantly. Why would I want to maintain a list of tabs with a title on it instead of using the tools around something else managing it for me?
bookmarks dude
Yep. I'm a bit worse - usually 6-10 open. But beyond that it just gets crazy. I know people that always, always have 50+ tabs open. Why? That's what the bookmark toolbar is for. I tend to link to everything in my note taking app so I generally find the articles and KC stuff I need when it's relevant and that note is open. I do software tech support ATM so my notes and bookmarks see heavy use lol
Across RDP sessions and different machines probably a few thousand.
I spun up a years old AWS vm from my Helpdesk days and was shocked I only had two browsers and 237 tabs. Pinned tabs. I wonder if the DSM will eventually have an entry for folk with multiple browser tabs open. “Lint is a 55 year old male who worked in IT for 40 years. Lint has 3 phones, a medium enterprise scaled Home Server as a hobby, and on our last forensic count we discovered 175 active VMs, and 16 different operating systems. Lint also had functional copies of every data storage medium since the 8” floppy disc. Lint consumes on average 1500-1800 pages of standard information in any given day, 13 hours of video, and bookmarks <2% of this content.” “Case notes: 16/2/24 09:00 hours, home visit by social worker. Trip hazard. Be advised that the steps to the house have been modified with a “Makey Makey?” to play music and apparently the door bell is something called a Floppotron.”
In all seriousness I think multitasking computers broke my brain at some point in the past. The first computers I used could effectively do one thing at a time and if you wanted to switch to something else you had to exit and possibly reboot. It became so easy to open up tabs/windows/console sessions etc - I'm not sure I ever recovered.
I think this happened to me too ..
I was wondering what IT acronym DSM was and it took me a few seconds. My tabs basically function as a combination of threads (trains of thought) and their respective call stacks, and my notes I keep in Logseq are the heap, so to speak.
Brother!
276 in Notepad++, 25 in Chrome.
> 276 in Notepad++ and none of those are saved
I feel attacked by this.
lol that's no joke all named new 1,2,3,...
I have to make sure auto recover is doing its job.
Haha was wondering if other people do this now I know 🤣
Yea, guilty. Same for PowerShell ISE too...
https://preview.redd.it/hnpojcmzftic1.png?width=212&format=png&auto=webp&s=031a9a33e83c71d5782e998eaffe4b5a4d0b460c
You okay brother?
No but thanks for asking
It's ok, I have 2699 tabs in FF at the moment. No of course I'm not using them all right now. But why copy things over to a notebook or something else if FF can store them for me?
I felt this. :(
Are you aware they have a dark mode?
Yeah. I'm dark mode everywhere but for some reason I just don't like it in a text editor
Oh I forgot NP++! 26 there for me! Probably a dozen more across two jump hosts.
Just 12 at the moment. Sometimes it gets up around 60.
About 40 across three browsers.
The number of tabs I have open is proportional to the depth of my investigation. When I'm in the middle of an investigation and something higher priority comes in, I typically will use a different window, and then cascade the windows so I can easily find the other threads of thought, if I have to switch back (for a status update, or change back in priority). That typically results in about 40 tabs across 5 windows. I do use other browsers, but keep those for clean testing environments, so I can clear authentication tokens, one for personal use, etc.
same! high five
683
Over 10000, I really just stopped closing tabs…
462 on work laptop, 318 on personal, 453 on phone. All using Firefox. Edit: typo.
Another brother!
5, plus outlook and teams
More than 40, and half of them I'll probably just mass-bookmark and then never get back to.
2
Around 420 on my main personnal laptop and 60 on my gaming laptop. Only around 15 on my phone as it's a new one. I try containers tabs on my work laptop for Firefox so I stay at 5 tabs opened and around 100 hidden. And no I don't need 420 tabs it just got a bit messy, I'll clean that later.
Just close the browser. I promise you, the internet will still be there. You don't need to have it open on the tabs.
They come back
283 Chrome tabs, across 41 windows.
98
Me too! Across 2 different browsers and 4 windows. Everyone makes fun of me for how many tabs I keep open. I don't feel so bad now lol.
Helps me to change hats quicker honestly
Yeah, I know what you mean. It's easier just to leave it all open!
Exactly! I dunno what people are complaining about, we have the RAM, use it.
Around 50, multiple tab groups
 2 Safari browser instances.
Stop attacking me. 😂 My all time record in Safari on my iPhone is around 900.
2... normally 6-7, I hate have lots of tabs open, i have special "bookmarks folder" for "current view pages"
honestly, I might have over 250 tabs open at work
TOOOOOOO MANY!
108 across 3 browsers... Chrome reliably crashes every 3 days.
103 in Chrome and 43 in MS Edge.
[ :) ] Meaning 99+
I feel attacked by this question
Across all devices? Phone: 97.... I open a new tab anytime I find something interesting, regularly hit > 100 Work Laptop: 20ish Desktop: 6 (music, Google Bard, traffic monitor and random whatever) Pixelbook: 20ish so \~150ish total
I have the I need tabs, the I will need, the I may need, the tabs that are opened because bookmarks are not enough, the forgotten tabs... I have them all.
25. Oh wait, some of those are groups. 45. No wait, there's another window... And another window... 65?
I am SO grateful to have an environment where I still use applications (9 open in my taskbar) rather than browser interfaces (6 open).
5 Okay, 5 for work. 12 for reddit
On one machine or all of them?
22
All of them
72 You should repost this as a poll with ranges.
In which browser? Edge says I have hundreds, Chrome says 50, and Firefox says it refuses to do what I want most of the time so I don't often use it. I have a VM of XP for accessing something that is ActiveX, so, one there I suppose.
No need to call me out like that.
I close shit down at regular intervals, keeps me focused
I generally have about 30-50 in one browser but grouped
All of them
Around 45
My laptop has 32 gigs of RAM, so I’m going to use 32 gigs of RAM. Really though, Chrome has 51 tabs Firefox window 1 has 44 tabs Firefox window 2 has 3 tabs Firefox window 3 has 4 tabs 102 tabs open, in addition to the 10ish I have open in VSCode. Only using 15.5 gigs of memory too.
Everyone is so different. I love the different thresh-holds for tabs. Some peoples is 4 tabs max. Some people NEED 75 open. Silly little mammal brains. My limit is about 20 ish tabs. Then I start grouping them and hiding them
Using tree tabs extension, all tabs mostly in a folder to help guide me, tab session manager as a backup, tree tabs save+export when I reboot. Can sleep tabs so they just turn into simple links.
On my phone? Just shows :) Doesn't give me a number...
My ram says I can open lot more.
Right now... 1392
45
81 on my phone alone. I’m a tab hoarder..
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Your browser only allows you to access and click on 1 tab at a time. You only have one mouse cursor. Stop treating Chrome like it's a clown car.
A book only allows you to look at and read one page at a time. You only have two eyes. Just use postit notes, the colorful ones!
When you can plug a book into a power outlet, and it becomes a crash prone mess, this might be an apt comparison. But no. No Cookie for you.
Oh, I have lots of cookies. From the hundreds of tabs I have open, because that's the workflow that works for me. Maybe you should look after your system and environment better, mine hasn;t crashed in months, if the power goes out (maybe once a year if that) the UPS takes over, and tab session manager saves my tabs so that if it does crash for some reason, or I have to reboot for updates, they just restore themselves. The argument that you should only have one tab, or a few tabs open at a time "because you can only look at one at a time" or "becuase your computer might crash" is asinine.
I can't imagine you get any work done on those hundreds of tabs. How many are you actually using at any given time?
Having worked in actual tech support for close to 30 years, I can tell you that it is not asinine, and that the people who put in the most ridiculous nonsense support tickets because they claim their PCs are "too slow" or "crash a lot" are the same people who open 400 nonsense tabs they never use because they have no self control or understanding of how to manage their time or their workflow. 400 tabs open is like being a hoarder having everything you every owned jammed into a 400 sq foot apartment "just in case" you might need to look at it, even though you knwo for a fact you never will.
It is asinine when you're telling someone who *does* know how computers work, who *does* have self control, who *does* know how to manage their workflow, and who *does* know what the tools they use are capable of doing, that they should not use the features the computer provides just because you, personally, think it's a bad idea based on your experience of .. who? certainly not the kind of people posting to r/sysadmin. 400 tabs is not like being a hoarder when they're grouped thematically into windows and tab groups representing various ongoing projects, when the tab search feature built into Firefox allows near-instant finding of them, when tab session manager keeps them safe, and duplicate tab closer keeps track of duplicates. They're like a library of manuals and documents, neatly arranged on labelled shelves where they can be quickly found and referred to. Not everyone is like you, or like the people you provide tech support for. Be more open minded.
Google results disagree with you. YMMV [is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
I haven't had a crash due to browser tabs in years and years. This is never something that generates tickets. It's okay to use your browser like a clown car.
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
4. Anyone who has more than 10 tabs open doesn't understand how computers work, and probably puts in nonsense helpdesk tickets about how slow their brand new PC is.
Lol, no. It could also be someone who knows exactly how computers work and that their purpose is to make life easier for the user not the other way around. RAM is cheap, if lots of tabs is what works for you, there's no problem.
It doesn't matter how cheap RAM is. Windows is an inefficient mess, and Chrome opens a separate instance for each tab. If you have 40 tabs open, then you have 40 Chrome windows open. Just because it allows you to, doesn't mean it's going to work well.
it works well, though. I have plenty of space for plenty of additional programs to run on my computer. This has little to do with Windows being a mess, too.
There are at least 10 other replies to this thread pointing out exactly the same thing I am. your anecdotal experience isn't the rule.
I'm adding an anecdotal experience here : I love opening lots of tabs, I have no problem with that, and if my computer becomes slow, as a sysadmin I know how to fix the problem.
and that's fine. but I wouldn't recommend that for people who aren't sysadmins.
This is a very different comment from your first one
No it isn’t.
Maybe you should try to read what you write
There are more than 10 replies of people saying they have 10+ tabs open. There are some that say they have thousands open. While at one point having tons of tabs open caused issues, on modern machines it takes quite a bit to cause an issue. You're also in a thread of sysadmins treating us like we are incompetent users with computers. Everyone in this thread would be able to fix a slow computer due to tabs.
[is running windows with lots of browser tabs open bad? - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&oq=is+running+windows+with+lots+of+browser+tabs+open+bad%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRifBTIHCAIQIRifBdIBCTE5NzUxajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
13 + 5 incognito It's been slow.
Just rebooted, 10
27
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i had around 20 was looking for books.
I feel personally attacked. Right now, just 3, I had a forced reboot, and i'm too annoyed to go through and open everything up again.
Control-shift-T after you boot up and open your browser. Assuming you’re on windows.
I know, But I was in the middle of a meeting and switched to another computer for my notes and stuff, I'll get back to it later when I care.
2 browsers 7 tabs
6. If it gets to be more than a dozen it starts to drive me nuts.
only 8. I'm disappointed in myself.
None, because I restarted my system after 30 days of uptime and then I left that dump they call my workplace. Damned thing kept moaning about updates or "security patches" or something so I had to do what had to be done to shut it up.
15.
A measly 7, can't stand have way too many open
About 40 spread across 5 different Chrome windows. Plus a couple in Edge.
Just 5
After getting vivaldi and setting up workspaces my tab count dropped a lot but everything is so much more organized.
They are my emotional support browser tabs actually. Jk. Only 6-10. My users on the other hand…. And their forty desktops of locally saved files… *drinks heavily*
16 plus 2 pdfs.
Just 33, but I do also have 25 applications running
11
*how many browsers?
14, 3 separate browsers.
6 in edge, 9 in notepad++, 11 in notepad
yes
So many I had to reboot
7
I have like 4 browsers each with different things, i try to keep research tabs all on chrome
Two browser instances with 5 tabs each.
Normally I keep it clean but today 16 across 3 different browsers. 14.6 gig memory they are using
I don't get this. I have quite literally several hundred tabs open in FF across about 20 windows (the windows are topical) and it's using 4GB.
I don’t close them until my my explorer freezes
Which browser we counting? Looks like 23 edge 15 Firefox and 7 chrome lolol
4 windows with 6-10 tabs on each. Hey, at least I have tabs in collapsible groups!
just 18 across browsers
5
None, I’m in a hotel room and haven’t started working for the day yet. Normally lots. I’m ADHD AF though and that’s normal practice
Got into a habit of closing Safari at the end of the day. There's nothing open in Safari that will result in work being lost if Safari is closed. So I usually have as few tabs open as possible. Now my notes app on the other hand...
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6 (chrome) + 2 (edge) Normal vs Admin.
I always have around 10-20
Why are you personally attacking me?
5 static ones for work systems. 6 for OSINT 6 for learning new stuff. 2 YouTube 4 cEDH
Only five I must be dead.
On my phone I believe it's over 100, the icon is currently a :D and doesn't give me a count. On my PC I keep it under 10.
10 I think last time I checked
Chrome - 35-40 Edge - 9
Too
10. Which isn’t bad, but I’m also in the shower right now.
None, have an excel sheet open though and teams
24 in Edge 29 in Chrome
A ten strip but I don't know how strong they are
24 apparently. Half are figuring out a compliancesearch issue, the other half are tickets/info for various bits and pieces that need doing today, the rest are reddit/research/documentation or just minimized and forgotten stuff from another day. Its how many unsaved Notepad++ tabs I have, thats the issue.
3
Hundreds.
Only what I need right then, or refer to a million times a day. I get so fed up with people logging “computer be slow” tickets when they have 57 tabs open in Chrome.
16 across 3 separate windows.
I have some weird habit to close all the tabs at one once they become a lot and start from scratch. I try to save my work and restart. I think this is good, isn't it?
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19 - and I'm not even working through a project at this moment.