Great topic. I generally have 4-6 open for production use at work. I have a method on YouTube…I want the current algorithm up so I can scroll until I refresh so I open videos I want to watch in new tabs and I like they don’t play until I click on them.
I was listening to TWiT this week and one of the guests said she keeps over 100 open and reopens if she has to reboot. That stresses me out just thinking about it.
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Only 33 this morning (across 3 browsers)… that’s pretty minimalist for me. 
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Very few 2-4 tops. I do have two browsers running, but still only 2 tabs in one and another tab in the other.
EDIT: I rarely close out tabs on my Android and could have up to 50 tabs.
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craigrrr
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I consider 51 tabs fairly minimalist. Both Chrome and Edge handle it just fine.
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ajason
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14 tabs in two browser windows so I can see info from two web pages for a specific task. I normally try to keep it to around 15 tabs or less per browser window. I like to be able to read each tab to see what it is. I often open support tickets in separate tabs, and this lets me see the ticket numbers.
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I’m in the same mindset as @ajason because I like to be able to read the tab names; so I keep a very minimalist number of tabs… 3-6 per window. It has creeped up on me (10-15) when I’m researching or looking into something, but normally it’s pretty minimalistic.
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I had a boss once that had so many tabs open, I saw her click on a hyperlink to open a new tab instead of finding the tab, which I just saw her open with that same hyperlink. She clearly had no idea what was open and it made me cringe inside.
I’d rather be able to read info on the site I have open.
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Wait. How many tabs TOTAL or how many tabs PER BROWSER? I open a new browser instance for each project/task. EG: My “Paperwork” browser has my timesheet and activities tabs as well as any Sharepoint docs I am referencing, but my coding browser can have anything from 3 to 30 tabs as I research things: a couple to SO, some for MS documentation, etc. A 3rd instance will have the web project I’m working on (eg, does page load? Do elements display correctly?). I’ll have another browser for Azure portal with tabs for the app service, webjobs, and function apps I’m writing. On a busy day, I can have 8 browsers open with each having probably 5-10 tabs open on average.
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I don’t usually have more than 10 tabs open, but I have three browsers for different things… so maybe 30ish?
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Love that method! But 100+ tabs?! Just reading that gave my CPU anxiety.
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That’s what we call “tab-tical efficiency.” 
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Luckily browsers are better about conserving resources on idle tabs, but I just like having some of my help articles just there. I know I can bookmark, but having it readily there where I know it is amongst my mess is invaluable to me personally.
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cag16
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Most I ever have open is 10, and that is usually only temporary. I don’t have any reason to have more than than open for any length of time.
I’ve also started keeping my inbox cleaner. But that is a different topic for another thread.
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@HulkSmash I did search for ‘whos kevin bacons dad’ and found he was an urban planner, architect, educator, &author. I don’t know what to do with this information, but thanks for sparking my curiosity. Honestly, mobile browsers deserve their own leaderboard. 
@craigrrr Chrome and Edge handling it just fine? Either you’ve got serious RAM, or your PC is powered by sheer willpower. 
@ajason @Just-Ask-Clippy That’s some solid tab discipline right there! 
@randomparts I totally get you, watching someone re-open the same link they just opened… it’s like tab inception. 
@tim-smith That’s not tab hoarding… that’s tab architecture. Each browser with its own dedicated task zone? Respect. 
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Seriously, if you have to delve into the realm of more than 30 tabs, you need multiple browsers opened as well to be able to keep track of everything.
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dwo1064
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Like others have mentioned, I have several windows of multiple tabs, usually no more than 10 tabs per window, and 3 to 5 windows.
The windows are basically per-category: Personal, Work/Corp, Vendor #1, Vendor #2, …
Then I have an RDP session open to my admin station, but that is usually a single window with just a few tabs specifically for system administration - VMware, Nutanix, OneView …
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dwo1064
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Speaking of Tabs and Windows (a bit off topic) Has anyone been using the Tabs feature in File Explorer?
Previously, by the end of the day I’d end up with 12-14 folders open - several of them to the same folders.
Now with Tabs, I can quickly see that I already have a folder open, or maybe one that is just one level up or down from what I’m looking for.
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