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> How many people have more than 8 tabs open at once?

Basically everyone I know, techie or not have many many tabs open, always. I might have 200+ at the moment? Something like that. They are hidden in containers so I don't see them all but in this current window I have maybe 20.

I never liked vertical tabs, takes up too much screen.

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I've never really understood this. I might go 10 or 20 tabs deep in a browsing session if I'm researching something, but if I want to save something for later I will either bookmark it or paste links into a text file. Having hundreds of tabs open all the time just seems inefficient to me.

Well, you've just said it yourself. You used the word "session". There really is no such thing for some of us, the browser is permanently open and also opens the same tabs again if the browser has to be closed for some reason.

Edit: I mean, it's still a session - just a permanent session.

I mean I know you can sort them into folders and such with extensions but if the tabs get corrupted, or you lose your session seems like you're hosed unless you bookmarked them or saved the tab session as a backup

https://joe.cat/CHI-browser-tabs/

> I never liked vertical tabs, takes up too much screen.

Personally find vertical tabs easier to organise and take up less space: https://gist.github.com/theprojectsomething/6813b2c27611be03...

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