45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

It brings me peace to close tabs. I try to aim for having 4 or 5 open. Then I look at my girlfriend's screen and the favicon doesn't even fit it in the tab anymore and it kills me.

20? I&#x27;m up an average of 200.<p>For those wondering how that is manageable I use Firefox with multirow tabs. And how it gets so high is that I always open links in new tabs in the background when doing any research.

My tabs are a convenientish curated list. It is wasteful and I hate it. At worst (best?) I&#x27;ve taken to sending a tab to another device as a way of dismissing it for later.<p>I hope someone jumps on the language model hype and makes an extension that summarizes what I have read, seen, and done on the web. Perhaps with a choice screenshot or two.<p>I don&#x27;t need a tree of pages, a spreadsheet, or a pie chart of time wasted on hn. I spent my time here on purpose, show me or tell me why. Remind me of the topics so I can close the tab and come back to it easily when needed.

I close everything each morning. There is some sort of relief this provides me. Like clearing of noise in my visual field. It makes it easier to get started with work and stay working.<p>edit: For my personal machine, this rule doesn&#x27;t apply. I just close stuff I don&#x27;t &quot;need&quot; open anymore.

Hmm. I appear to have 15726 tabs open at the moment, in 35 windows.<p>These research sessions get a little out of hand sometimes.

I&#x27;m trying simple tab groups on Firefox so they&#x27;re more organized. Used to let them fill the screen until I got sick of it and deleted them.

I generally have 200-500 tabs open at a time, appropriately sorted into groups and hierarchies using sidebery

Our telemetry says 98% of Firefox users have fewer than 20 tabs open. And that&#x27;s Beta data so heavily skewed to more sophisticated users. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it was closer to 99% maxing out at under 20. 95% have fewer than 10 tabs open. 75% have 3 or fewer.

This post made me realise that at some point In the last few years I stopped consciously managing tabs. Three windows on boot, two work one personal - usually about 3-15 tabs each. Feel overwhelmed? Close all except the current tab.

20? That&#x27;s rookie numbers.