Actually, you are countering his personal experience with your own. Just because you would find that many open tabs to be problematic doesn't mean he will. He could be like a lot of developers, lots and lots of documentation pages pointing to API info whilst they code :-)
> Actually, you are countering his personal experience with your own.
Kind of the point. Just because one developer finds KDE or Gnome or x better doesn't make it a universal fact.
Many of us find Gnome suits us just fine.
> He could be like a lot of developers, lots and lots of documentation pages pointing to API info whilst they code :-)
Most documentation pages are searchable and well organized. No need to keep hundreds of open pages.
Personally, having that many tabs open would make my head hurt. I'll generally have Vim open with a few open buffers, one browser window, one terminal, and the running program I'm working on...