How many tabs do you usually have open in your browser?

i'm a 10-15 kinda girl

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

I'm 10-15 too. Opera lets you group 'em so I can hide my batch of always opens (gmail, twitter, etc) and concentrate on the new links on hand, etc. It's nice.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

6-9, fnarrrr. Though I will edge into 10-15 every so often.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

3 to 5, but multiple profiles

― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

Sometimes as many as a dozen when I'm catching up on newsfeeds/blogs/etc. in the morning. My PC chugs like a steam engine though, so usually not more than 3 or 4.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

Also because Chrome doesn't sandbox tabs as much as claimed, particularly Flash components, so something crashing on one tab can affect others.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

56 right now

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

1 to 3 usually, voted 2

― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

3 windows of ~20 right now :/

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink

6-9 in work browser (firefox), 6-9 in 'other' browser (chrome)

― the fey monster (ledge), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:21 (11 months ago) Permalink

eephus, thank you for making me feel like slightly less of a tab hoarder (@ 42). TBF, most of them are open to very particular pages that I've referenced quite a bit lately.

― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

I (ab)use the Chrome bookmarks bar for that.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

Tab Menu

Close All Tabs From a Site

^ these two exts serve me pretty well

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:52 (11 months ago) Permalink

38 in Firefox (using tree-style vertical tabs), 50 in Chrome.

― etc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

3-5. I use the FirefoxTab Mix Plus add-on and often have one or two tabs protected/locked when I want to remind myself to read something but don't want it to get lost in my bookmarks pile.

― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

xpost

(high fives)

I have a feeling "excessive browser tabs" will totally show up in a future DSMIV ADD diagnosis.

― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

20+ for lyfe, i start cleaning up when the favicons disappear, h8 it so much when the favicons disappear

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:50 (11 months ago) Permalink

33 atm

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

xp That's just a sign that you need to buy a bigger monitor.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:57 (11 months ago) Permalink

Two at a time, sometimes three. More than that would drive me insane.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

actually only 6 right now, but often have over 20 open

― silverfish, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

When I have over 20 open my computer starts to chug and I must to make the bookmark-or-forget decisions. But I just use firefox and no extensions for this issue. If there were no computer slowdown I'm sure I'd have 30+ tabs open all the time...

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

two

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:35 (11 months ago) Permalink

i try to keep in the 3-5 range but more often than not i'm in 6-9 territory, especially at work. i think if i ever get up to 10 or more i start closing things or making sure i'm done reading them as quickly as possible

― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:27 (11 months ago) Permalink

so... nobody but me wants an infinite tab browser?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (11 months ago) Permalink

3-5 in each window

― the late great, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

usually two windows

― the late great, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

13 right now: something I intend to buy once I decide I can actually afford to spend the scratch (2), a short story a friend I'm working with wants me to read (1), an email I need to answer (1), prog-sphere.com (1), ilx threads (3), charity I might donate to (1), twitter (1), schedule of upcoming boxing matches (1), King of Metal Reviews Cannibal Corpse Album covers (1), inbox (1)

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way? does it provide spiritual in addition to literal closure to your task? is there more than a practical reason for keeping tabs under a certain amount?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

Inbox Zero is my ultimate rush (well okay, and Credit Card Zero)

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

5 is optimum for me. After that I start getting antsy.

― how's life, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

56 right now

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That makes me want to break out into hives.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

would you guys install a browser plugin that cleared away chains of similarly favicon'd tabs, like in puyo puyo or bejeweled?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

hahahaha

"opening a third tab of opponents Pacquiao's faced since De La Hoya to look at how they did in the year before Pac agreed to face them...oh shit, well, there they go"

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

right now:

1. inbox
2. LOL star trek related
3. ILX
4. Dog Food Recall

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way? does it provide spiritual in addition to literal closure to your task? is there more than a practical reason for keeping tabs under a certain amount?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:48 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TOTALLY. Love to close tabs.

― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:14 (11 months ago) Permalink

lol correctly id'ing the parent domain for lagoon's tabs is today's challenge

11 of them I couldn't get

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

b/w 6-9 & 10-15.

Usually if the latter, I have them itemized by task & divided up b/w two windows, lolOCD

― "horror shirt" (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

Five usually max. It gets hard to tell what each is with more than that.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

3-5 is what I prefer

after that i do start to get a little antsy, i admit

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

Leftmost tab is always ILX.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

I HAVE ALL THE TABS. ALL THE TABS ARE MINE

I just keep opening them until they no longer get a favicon in Chrome (25-30 on my laptop?) and then I can't see what they are any more. Then I admit to myself that I am probably not actually going to read them all and I start to close them unread, or just go to bed and give up on them. Sometimes I leave them open when I go to bed and let them all reopen the next day and let the guilt start again.

Sigh.

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:58 (11 months ago) Permalink

heres a recommended tab i have open that leads to more tabs http://longform.org/author/david-grann-2

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

I always feel like in one of the 20 unread or not-quite-finished tabs there might be a little nugget of vital information, e.g. the one blast of eye-opening instant knowledge that will show me how to be a better, more productive person.

Of course the real key to being a more productive person would be not to open 30 tabs at once and read all the internet all evening, but that doesn't seem to occur to me.

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

I just close my browser when I end up having too many tabs

― silverfish, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:02 (11 months ago) Permalink

also, owning a kindle + the "send to kindle" chrome app has helped reduce the amount of tabs I keep open. Now instead of having a long articles sitting unread in open tabs in my browser I have lots of long articles sitting unread on my kindle. Progress.

― silverfish, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

ya i feel like the main function of instapaper/readability/etc is tab graveyard

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

like thank god i dont have to relate to this interesting looking thing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

wait do tabs still disappear when you close browsers? Do you guys just leave it on/in sleep mode all the time? I know I am a broken record about this but not only does Opera do tab stacking (so I can group 2-50+ tabs in one tab slot) but it saves everything for my next reboot.. I only use Opera so I'd no idea how the others have let the tab lovers down!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:08 (11 months ago) Permalink

IT also gives me a list of recently closed tabs, an option to open a new window with a private browsing session, or just to open various windows to keep all my 'work stuff' in one session, personal in another, etc. #bragging2012

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

Chrome gives me a list of recently closed tabs, but I have to open a new tab to be able to see it.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:12 (11 months ago) Permalink

I think most browsers have the option of saving whatever tabs you have open when you close the browser, but I intentionnally disable this option because otherwise I'd have about thousands of open tabs by now

― silverfish, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

i just never close my browser or turn off my computer

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

gotcha, okay. Opera has had saved tabs for what feels like the last ten years so I couldn't imagine that browsers still "shipped" without that functionality - but turning it off, I get.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink

Chrome has the option to 'On start up... Continue where I left off', but I don't have it enabled.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:20 (11 months ago) Permalink

I usually run Firefox on my Windows laptop, and it becomes unstable and crashes alot when too many tabs are open. A planded Firefox upgrade is slated to improve performance when 20+ tabs are open.

My multi-tab pet peeve: when one of your 20 open tabs (usually when first opening your browser) starts blaring noise and I can't figure out which tab has a video window that automatically starts when you visit that page. Is there a detection plugin for this?

What's the advantage of opening a new window vs. new tabs?

― Lee971 (Lee626), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:07 (11 months ago) Permalink

97 (in two windows) currently...

― 1staethyr, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:13 (11 months ago) Permalink

Leftmost tab is always ILX.

― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol Gmail is always my far left tab. Ilx is usually to the right of that and then FB.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

I always open up the same three tabs first thing - FB, twitter, ilx. Always.

― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:34 (11 months ago) Permalink

Me too except Gmail, ILX, FB. In that order.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:37 (11 months ago) Permalink

do y'all find closing tabs satisfying in a 'i just cleared a row in tetris' kind of way?

Oh hell yeah.

I have more open at times (like now) when I'm writing something and I have each source I might draw from open in a tab.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:30 (11 months ago) Permalink

At other times I might have as few as 20!

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:30 (11 months ago) Permalink

usually 3-5 windows of 10-20 pages each

every few weeks i just go 'fuck it' and stick them all in the 'read later' chrome app and then never see them again. which is why i don't like doing that.

― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:15 (11 months ago) Permalink

gmail is always my leftmost/ first tab too, in fact if for some reason it gets closed I'll close em all and start again. I do the same w/ task bar at work. left/ first has to be outlook then work dbase then FF.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:36 (11 months ago) Permalink

but never more than maybe 6 tabs? seems pointless having more, not like I'm doing that much at once.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

porn = 20+

― we gotta move these refrigerators (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

o_O

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:29 (11 months ago) Permalink

like a zillion. 15? usually a couple of articles i read half of & know that i would be a better, more thorough person for finishing, but will never finish. an ended but still pinned ebay auction. a couple of gmails. some photologs that i will forget are open & so look at again in a tab ten tabs along. a couple of tabs that are google searches of phrases i've written while offline at night just as reminders to myself, like email ___ or club soda origins. bunches of ilx threads, all at once, so many that it edges out the icon on the tab, & then I work through them, until 0 ilx threads. you just wait for the day when you accidentally erase all of the tabs and remember that you didn't need any of them at all just not one bit because there is plenty more internet where that came from.

― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:38 (11 months ago) Permalink

voted 6-9, probably where i'm usually at. 17 at the moment tho.

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

let's see... 3 for email, 1 for fb, 2-3 for ilx, 5-6 ofr articles i'm kinda reading through, 4 for the website i work for, 1-2 for youtube, 1 wiki, 2 for news things, 1 for another forum i browse, 3 for sports websites. so around 20+ aat all times. i also never shut down my laptop and hate it when my browser crashes and for some reason it bugs and cannot reopen all tabs cos that means i have to open all those ebsites again.

― Jibe, Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:59 (11 months ago) Permalink

Firefox runs so slowly for me anymore, I really should switch to Chrome or Safari. But there are a couple of particular FF customizations that make my daily internetting so much easier, and which I haven't figured out how to recreate in other browsers. But that's for another thread. Anyway, I usually have 5 or 6 tabs open...voted 6-9.

― Trey Imaginary Songz (WmC), Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

crashed, lost em all, can't remember a single one

o well

― r|t|c, Saturday, 26 May 2012 14:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

30-70 with tree-style tabs. never less than 15

― Dan I., Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

i've occasionally had 40 tabs open for work, which pretty much makes my shitty work computer grind to a halt

― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:47 (11 months ago) Permalink

i also never shut down my laptop and hate it when my browser crashes and for some reason it bugs and cannot reopen all tabs

in Firefox, search for the files "sessionstore.js" and "prefs.js", and make backup copies of them occasionally. If Firefox can't reopen your tabs after it crashes, close firefox, copy the latest versions of your backups of those two files to the folder where firefox normally keeps them, and restart firefox. Your tabs will reappear.

― Lee971 (Lee626), Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

can i just say thank god for tabs, i remember expending an inordinate amount of time and effort on positioning a dozen or more browser windows in different shapes and sizes around my screen in order to be able to click between them as quickly as possible without resorting to a godforsaken dropdown menu

― some dude, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

i have 11 tabs open right now and feel like that's a lot fewer than i've had open in a long time, like a false sense of having shit under control

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:31 (11 months ago) Permalink

tell us about your tabs

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:35 (11 months ago) Permalink

fascinating conversation material let me tell you

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:39 (11 months ago) Permalink

it's your thread!

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:40 (11 months ago) Permalink

i know!
thread of passing fascination

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:41 (11 months ago) Permalink

i think we've all found out what we need to know

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

here

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:42 (11 months ago) Permalink

k

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:42 (11 months ago) Permalink