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Scrolling the mousewheel while hovering the mouse over the tab bar to switch between tabs I guess?

I have always just used ctrl + pgup/pgdown in Chromium for tab switching (same in Sublime). I am guessing OP is referencing the fixed min-width of the tabs though?

I know it is completely insane, but I have a strong compulsion to keep my tab count low. Once it starts approaching 7 or so, it is time to evaluated which 3 or 4 have to go.

Meanwhile I go look at someone else's monitor and they have 25 open all the time, and I can recognize some haven't been touched in weeks. I just think to myself "Clean up after yourself. How can you live like this?"

I use ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab to cycle tabs. Good to know that there are other options.

I also don't see how people have the RAM to have 50 tabs open. If I can't read part of the title of my tab, it's being moved to a new window or closed.

Actually having 50 tabs should not be an issue RAM-wise. The problem is that chrome (and firefox quantum) open many many processes and therefore consume a lot of ram. Quantum is expected to be much better than current Chrome in Ram consumption. Because chromium allegedly opens seperate processes for each tab(?), quantum uses the same process for a couple of tabs and thus allows resource sharing.

In a single processed browser, ram is not an issue. I've been using 25+ tabs for many years, only recently in Chrome I experienced a low ram warning (i have 8GB). I switched back to firefox 56.

With light pages + efficient ad blocking, 50 tabs seem actually light on memory. This may be less true with video pages or many heavy online newspaper websites.

Since I got a 32 GiB RAM computer, I don't know what is the memory usage of Firefox anymore.

tab groups! that is the way to live. Grouping tabs based on theme keeps the bar clean and makes it easy for theme based workflow

I love them at times. Do you know if a Firefox 57+ compatible extension exists for that?

This. This was the feature I missed most when I moved away from Firefox.

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