> While thousands is ridiculous, a hundred isn't that unreasonable

That reads like "while <more than I use> is ridiculous, <as many as I use> isn't that unreasonable".

I never have more than about ten tabs open, and a hundred strikes me as ridiculous too. To each his own, though, I guess.

This is tediously rehashed in every. single. thread. about tabs (someone's always gotta have a problem with someone else), but the fact is that some people have lots of tabs open while others don't. For me it's because bookmark management is such a forgotten child in all browsers, so I leave tabs in order to read them later.

The address bar used to be pretty helpful in calling up bookmarks (10+ years ago), but now there's too much featuritis there for me ever to rely on it again.

Well, a hundred is actually manageable. A thousand just takes up so much space, in any form, that you can't possible sort through them in any reasonable time.

That's why the address bar from Firefox is so awesome compared to the one from Chrome. I can easily find the opened tab.

Some extension that vertically groups tabs from the same domain would be great. I know in Vivaldi you can do this

I still don't want to read A THOUSAND lines.

I think you misunderstood. A tab per site, some kind of drop down-type interface per tab for each page on that site. So if you had 50 tabs, you'd have an average of 20 pages under each per tab.

That would indeed be a much better use of space.

There is that "tree style tabs" for FF as mentioned in other comments. I too would like this, but for chrome, and working with horizontal tab bars.

Come join us. We have free tree style tabs and a browser that doesn't send all your data to google : )

Also Chrome might be faster but FF has some unique advantages that makes it really great for serious work.

Also the speed advantage that Chrome currently has might be about to disappear : )

That's why "bookmarks" were invented for...

I never understand any of my friends who keep having tens of tabs open. Just bookmark the thing and free up some CPU/RAM. It's a keystroke away.

From what I have seen, it is like RAM vs HD usage. You bookmark things that are going to be useful in the future, long term, while you keep tabs open while they are in current use such as when researching a topic. For example, when someting here breaks or I want to learn more about a given topic, it is not uncommon for me to use hundreds of tabs open while I triage what is useful and what is not. Some of those will be added to the bookmarks (or pocket, or pinboard, depending on how I like them).

My personal workflow usually involves opening huge number of tabs researching something, then closing most of them later. So we can say that there are peaks of tab usage followed by a phase of organizing stuff. The advances in the recent Firefox releases really help me.

But this is my own personal way of working, others may have different views.

I research many things (being a student and as part of my job). But I usually close useless tabs after reading them. I keep the main research tabs open, the trunk you could say, that trunk can always lead me back to the leafs.

I'm the same. In Vivaldi you can hibernate background tabs to free up memory. Then they get reloaded when focused

No bookmarks are for things I want to save; tabs are temporary. If I'm reading hacker news, I'll open all the articles I want to read in new tabs (maybe with their comments in yet another tab) and then go through them one at time.

Obviously this is unmanageable in Chrome from the UI but with the right extensions (tab mix plus w/ multi row tabs) in Firefox it's pretty usable.

Tree tabs are godly for this because it lets you retrace your steps.

Say you start on HN and open five articles. You've now got HN/Site1, HN/Site2, and so on. Then you find an interesting link on 3 of those 5 sites.

With normal tabbing, you now have 9 tabs open and a majority of the text hidden on one line, where with a proper tree view, you can see the entire site, and how you got there, which is probably more valuable to me than the actual content.

In my experience, bookmarks just get forgotten about. You end up with years of bookmarks, never revisited. Tabs are a visible reminder.

Bookmarks are mostly useless for read-later tabs because out of sight, out of mind, and there's always new stuff to read. Open tabs force you to make a decision - read me or close me. And, as usual, Opera 12 was the best browser of its time, and even today is orders of magnitude better than the current offerings, at least in some respects.

Mental thing. By having the tabs open (pinned), it's a reminder that I need to get this shit done. Eventually the ones that didn't get done are sent to the graveyard.

Tree-style tab and middle clicking means that you can have a hierarchical record of your browsing when researching. Middle click three to five tabs from a search, middle click from each tab when reading through on the first article for any interesting subarticles, then when you get to the bottom you have a visual record of your path to that point.

To make things even better, when you're done with that research point you just kill the parent level tab and the children all go away too.

Tens of tabs is pretty typical in my workday and improves my productivity vs. fewer tabs and forgetting how I got to a tangent.

I don't want to bookmark any of my tabs.

Most people that have tens of tabs open google something then open every result in a new tab and basically use the tabs as a very short term todo queue. When you close the current tab you get moved to the next item in the queue. Managing bookmarks for something you're only reading for maybe two minutes isn't worth the effort.

This also has the advantage of loading the pages in the background so you don't have to waste your time on bloated webpages.