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6-9 unless I'm working on a special project.

I have ten open right now but that's a little above normal.

Depends on what I'm doing, but generally more than 25. On a busy night, upwards of 100 or so.

I usually treat my tab bar as a "to do" list, but I like to keep one window per activity. For example, if it's catching up on social networking time, I start a new session and open up the social networking sites I'm checking in their own tabs, and from each of those I open up each notification. Then I go through and close tabs as I catch up. When I'm doing research for work or personal amusement, I open up tabs about things I want to read, but close them when I finish reading them. When I'm hunting for wallpapers, I'll open up the ones I'm interested in in new tabs and start working through and closing them when I hit upwards of 40.

But I never have more than, say, 10 at the very most open unless each tab is holding a single item of content that I will look at quickly and close. Having more than 25 for any appreciable amount of time is a fucking travesty and a waste of resources. Anyone who regularly has this many tabs open, each with content that will take a meaningful amount of time to consume, needs to clean up their fucking life before they continue abusing their RAM, and in the case of Flash content, CPU cycles.

I have two open right now, which is pretty much the average for me.

A tab for any map I want to play, the forums, Facebook, (Tumblr when I can access it), and one for Mibbit. And then one for Stumbling.

Anywhere from 20 to about 80 or so. A few will be things I've forgotten to close, but it's not rare that I'm actively using upwards of 40 tabs, mostly because of the byzantine process that is looking through journal articles -- find it on Google Scholar, get the DOI from the abstract, log in to the library and search for the DOI, then get redirected to the abstract on a university machine, and then get the full PDF.

scythe wrote:Anywhere from 20 to about 80 or so. A few will be things I've forgotten to close, but it's not rare that I'm actively using upwards of 40 tabs, mostly because of the byzantine process that is looking through journal articles -- find it on Google Scholar, get the DOI from the abstract, log in to the library and search for the DOI, then get redirected to the abstract on a university machine, and then get the full PDF.

Then you close the intermediate tabs, junkie. >:[
Garbage collect those fuckers.

T̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư wrote:I usually treat my tab bar as a "to do" list, but I like to keep one window per activity. For example, if it's catching up on social networking time, I start a new session and open up the social networking sites I'm checking in their own tabs, and from each of those I open up each notification. Then I go through and close tabs as I catch up. When I'm doing research for work or personal amusement, I open up tabs about things I want to read, but close them when I finish reading them. When I'm hunting for wallpapers, I'll open up the ones I'm interested in in new tabs and start working through and closing them when I hit upwards of 40.

But I never have more than, say, 10 at the very most open unless each tab is holding a single item of content that I will look at quickly and close. Having more than 25 for any appreciable amount of time is a fucking travesty and a waste of resources. Anyone who regularly has this many tabs open, each with content that will take a meaningful amount of time to consume, needs to clean up their fucking life before they continue abusing their RAM, and in the case of Flash content, CPU cycles.

I do this without the restraint. Browsing Cracked is by far the worst, where I will have a tab open for each article, and open another tab for further reading on anything they link that interests me. At most, I've probably had about 60 tabs open, but there is a chance there was more.

Ahaha, squibs is right on with his cracked.com comment.

Usually 3-4. The first is always email, and the rest are dependent on the current activity. Like now I have email, and two forum tabs.