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I've heard several people say they keep lots of tabs open like you do and I'm curious why.

Personally, I find I never need more than ~10 for the task at hand. Also, if I ever DO have more than that open, the titles get too small to read and I start forgetting what I have. I either go flipping through all of them to find one, or I just give up and open a duplicate tab, making the problem worse.

Instead, if I want to look at something later, I usually tag it in Pinboard. Later, I can scroll down through a readable list of things I've recently bookmarked, or if I vaguely remember it, I can search by tags or text to find it.

Given this, I can't see a reason to have so many tabs open. Can you explain why you like to work that way?

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Up to 100 tabs.

Because I can do it without any slowness.

I'm one of the two Opera users.

It's honestly out of laziness. I mostly just keep opening tabs and can't be arsed to go back through them and decide which ones to keep.

I've tried using all manner of sites like Pinboard, but none of them work as I like. I want a one-click bookmark button where I don't have to tag anything. Maybe I should finally get around to building the bookmarking app I really want.

I'm trying Pocket for a similar reason. It adds a little icon by the bookmark icon. There's no tagging or anything required, the things I save go into a private queue 'in the cloud', and it even syncs to my phone.

I can't remember why I stopped using Pocket. I really need to write down reasons why I stop using software/libraries etc; there always comes a time when I need to justify it and I can never remember the reason :D

I use http://historio.us/ for that. One-click bookmarklet, all my links are indexed so I can full-text search for them later.

>> I want a one-click bookmark button where I don't have to tag anything.

Pinboard has several different bookmarklets you can use. One of them is a single-click one that tags the page as "read later".

I do use Instapaper for that.

With some one-click extension.

I have an explanation as well: Big parts of my work consists of exploratory "research" (what is written, what is available?)

Reading up on one alternative often leads to multiple links which I can either read one an one, return from, figure out what is the next link, follow that, maybe recurse another level then step back etc. To me this is cumbersome.

Instead of keeping this tree in my head I can just ctrl-click any interesting link, ctrl-tab to the next tab when I'm finished with the current one and continue ctrl-clicking.

Finishing up I can even use the save tab set feature of pinboard to stash it all away under a nice label.

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