I typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.
I like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service).
How can you navigate among your tabs with any semblance of ease or speed?
Yeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all the tabs as a queue of stuff to read? That's a problem I run into, and I deal with it by keeping a vim buffer open with a list of URLs.
I use my browser as my 'auxiliary memory', if I don't have time to read something right away I just open a tab and leave it until I have time.
On a typical day this means that in the morning I start with the session I left the evening before, say 25 tabs or so (usually project + whatever documentation I need for it), then as the day goes by the number of open tabs slowly increases. By the evening it probably is at its peak somewhere between 50 and 70 or so, then before I go to bed I catch up on my reading and close anything that doesn't have to do with work ready for the next cycle.
When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle.
I agree in theory; that many tabs are pretty difficult to manage. Unfortunately, a garbage collection cycle forces me to focus on garbage collecting (since I will usually have several important sites open among the trash), breaking my concentration on the research. It ends up being more productive to leave them open for a while, until they reach some threshold where I have to do too much work to find the important open sites among the garbage. That point for me is definitely more than 25 but also less than 100. I assume that it's different for different people.
