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Re:Why You Should Never Have More Than Nine Browser Tabs Open by conorgdaly on Friday February 08, 2013 @05:14AM (#5187123)
when you have so many tabs open that you can’t see the anything but the favicons, you’ll waste lots of time hunting down that one elusive page. [sic]

In Firefox, Tree Style Tab extension makes this a non-issue. Tabs are arranged in a vertical column down the side with an adjustable column width.