Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#1

Post by hydroid7 » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 11:42 AM UTC

Interested, how many tabs you have .

For me:

- 213 on desktop

- 83 on mobile

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#2

Post by sposeray » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 11:47 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#3

Post by nonamesleft » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 11:59 AM UTC

At home: ~700

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#4

Post by _8j50 » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 11:59 AM UTC

Somewhere between 300 and 700. I close a bunch of them when the system slows down.

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#5

Post by littlelady » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:09 PM UTC

- Desktop: 31 - Mobile: 168

I try to purge some tabs every day, but don't always do so. Mobile involves a lot of random browsing.

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#6

Post by michaelsalim » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:25 PM UTC

Just under 400. There's a lot of people with crazy numbers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32312441

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#7

Post by CrypticShift » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:32 PM UTC

OMFG ! I never really understood this or the use of all those tab managers [1]. For me, Tabs are just links. Why do you have to keep them open? Can't you just bookmark them ? (and then delete them later)

[1] https://alternativeto.net/feature/tab-manager/?sort=likes

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#8

Post by deafpolygon » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:32 PM UTC

How do you have so many tabs on mobile? I get desktop - I hover around 100 most days.

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#9

Post by dutchCourage » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

About 40 on desktop, spread around 4 windows.

Less than 30 on mobile. Samsung's browsers lets me customize its interface. I added the "close tab" button there. It has kept my tab count in check.

Re: Ask HN: Your browser tab count

#10

Post by deafpolygon » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

CrypticShift wrote: post #7

OMFG ! I never really understood this or the use of all those tab managers [1]. For me, Tabs are just links. Why do you have to keep them open? Can't you just bookmark them ? (and then delete them later) [1] https://alternativeto.net/feature/tab-manager/?sort=likes

I thought this way at first, but I'm discovering the value of opening tabs and coming back to them later, as I'm reading. I try to stay focused on what I'm reading without following links, so a middle-click and move on. Then I come back to the links and skim what I'm interested in. Sometimes this leads to 20 tabs being opened from a single site. And I don't have time to do it all in one sitting so I leave them there and come back to it. Thankfully tab suspend is a thing.