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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:50PM (#14824313)
Different people are different. When researching a question without a direct answer, it's more effective for me to open up tabs as I read a page and then search the most likely candidate. Whenever I reach a dead-end I can just switch tabs as opposed to pressing the back button N times. zzalpha's comment sums it up nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14824086

I know I'm a power user, but I miss how effective old Chrome was at this.

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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by julian_1 on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:03PM (#14824380)
The same approach works well for forum discussions. One tab representing the forum, and child-tabs to track the comments section.

For instance with HN, tabs provide quick navigatable references back to discussions that are relevant to my interest, and that might contain lead-off liks/references after they have fallen off the front-page.

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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by meowface on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:01PM (#14824374)
I'm a chronic tab abuser as well, often with over 100 tabs at once. 1000 tabs still sounds insane to me.
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by TheGrassyKnoll on Saturday July 22, 2017 @02:51AM (#14825789)
Well, I'm running 600+ in Firefox for no particular reason. I guess that makes me only 60% insane.
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