How Many Tabs Is Too Many Tabs?

Look at your tabs currently, how many are there? Yes, one does not simply close tabs, we gave them a proper send off like after we completely done with it. Based on what's you use your browser for, there should be alot of tabs and some just stayed there without any actions every single time and even the intention of closing it. Could have 69 tabs in a modern multitasking lifestyle, where one tab could be on managing a TikTok creator, another tab could be on a Google Doc while another could be endless tabs of Youtube videos for inspiration. Eventually, this will lead to total chaos as your PC start struggle to keep with those tabs.

Signs You’ve Hit Tab Overload

How far considered you gone too far? Let's see here:

• Your PC fans start making loud noise, indicating maximum usage of RAM.

• The tabs too much until you can't see the tabs titles anymore and only see the icons.

• You reopen the same or wrong sites from the tabs several times.

• Mistaken close the tab you been working. Lose several hours of work done there.

• You have a ritual to pin down certain tabs that might stay there forever and never close

Why We Do It

Real honest with this, it's actually poor discipline. Failing to manage multiple tabs till everything just live in one browser. In other ways around, it also feels like the tabs are under control as a to-do list. In which it could be closed down after it's done but sometimes just let it open for "future references". Also with a simple promise "probably will come back to this". After several more tabs covering it, you might just forget about it and together with other boatloads of tabs.

Some Ways to Handle Tab Chaos?

• There's tab grouping that you could use. In modern browsers (chrome have it), tab grouping are pretty common, you can manage it neatly with different colors.

• Make use of bookmarking as it could reduce the tabs you to opened all the time drastically.

• Personally not a fan of this but tab snoozing plugin is still a way, those tabs haven't been active for awhile should be put on "sleep mode".

• Make a tab purging every week. Take some time to really take down some of the inactive tabs. It's hard but it's needed to keep it clean.

• Consider incognito browser like CtrlFire or going incognito mode for certain other tabs that just open for awhile

When Tabs Become Workspaces

When all the time been relying on browsers for everything, slowly you'll realize it slowly become your workspace. With all the Google docs, sheets, slides and other dashboards, browsers are slowly turn into everything a operating system able to do. Without just opening every single apps, now you just open it on browser, call it the "web app". That seems really cool huh? till it will slowly taking off your RAM and start getting slower and slower. And as mentioned above, it turn into a chaotic mess of tabs. This is where managing well or grouping them is the way to keep everything in control.