How Many Tabs Do You Have Open On a Browser?

I usually have 4 or 5 minimum, but at times I could have more than 15. Soooooo...

I use instapaper.com a lot now. What it does is save the webpages you want to keep for later viewing but don't necessarily want to bookmark. I have less tabs up now, and less distractions.

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emini_guy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by rrm

I usually have 4 or 5 minimum, but at times I could have more than 15. Soooooo...

I use instapaper.com a lot now. What it does is save the webpages you want to keep for later viewing but don't necessarily want to bookmark. I have less tabs up now, and less distractions.

Ron

I too use instapaper and love it. I use 2 tabbed browsers, often side by side, and I may keep 3-6 tabs open on each of them at any given time, but sometimes even as many as 15 or so.

I don't think keeping many tabs is what really distracts you. I keep them open usually because I am doing research and not because I am just killing my time mindlessly. The latter may happen too, but I don't think you need many tabs for it. One could very well be enough.

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JSProjects

14 years ago

at this very moment, 9. But I've been known to approach 15-20 at times.

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mrinternational

14 years ago

I guess it is more common for IMers to have many windows open at the same time, wonder if this also applies to regular folks?

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absolutelee

14 years ago

10 or so, that's for each browser! Sounds sick, I know.

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Leslie B

14 years ago

It depends. I can go from as low as 1 to up to more then 30, depending on what I need to do. Usually, the more I have open, the more I am distracted though, so no good there.

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vjboc 14 years ago

I have 7 tabs open right now. I have had a many as 20 or 25. Depends on what I am doing.
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Jeremy Stephens

14 years ago

Yes, I can have up to 20 open, I see something and think I'll get back to that, then get an email about something else and it just snowballs.

I've been using IE. and it keeps on stopping so I've just decided to use Chrome. We'll see.

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Steven Miranda

14 years ago

I usually keep 4-5 open. I am pretty obsessive about not having too many things going on. Throughout the day I'm sure I open 100 or so new tabs and then close.

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KimboJim

14 years ago

I tend to have about 5-10, but they aren't distracting me. They are for various research purposes (for copywriting) or checking up on my websites or other things.

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ColinT

14 years ago

Right now I have 9 tabs open but sometimes I can have 20+ , and yes it can get very distracting at times

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WarpedMind

14 years ago

I guess so far, I'm the winner... it's not unusual for me to have so many tabs and windows (with more tabs) that eventually my mac crashes (yes, mac and crash in the same sentence). I've seen windows with 40, 50 or more tabs (again, with multiple windows open). I'd guess that it's not uncommon for me to have a hundred or more (I believe much more) tabs at any given time. I've had so many that when I hit CTRL+T or CTRL+W again, nothing happens! LOL! Safari, Chrome, Firefox (no IE for me... yech!)... I bring them all to their knees!

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Michael D Forbes

14 years ago

This is too funny! Depends on what I'm working on. Day to day normal would be 8-15 in one or two different browser windows. Some days though, I will have 3-4 different open browsers each with 5-10 tabs.

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Ralph Moore 14 years ago

Never less than three. When I am working on a project, it is common to have anywhere from 6 to 15 or more tabs open.

It really depends upon what I am doing.
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IamTJM

14 years ago

I tend to have around 6. Any more then I just feel cluttered and I start closing tabs unless in working on a project that requires all those tabs of course.

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Lori Kelly

14 years ago

Wow. Glad I'm not alone. A dozen or more. Three different browsers to test sites in the different browsers too. Word programs, excel, ...............

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rosetrees

14 years ago

A friend phoned me a few weeks ago to tell me that a few weeks previously he had watched a youtube video of an engine over revving and exploding. Everytime he turned on his computer it was making the exploding noises and he couldn't work out why.

I went round and discovered he was using Firefox, which was set to open all the previous tabs each time he launched it. He knew nothing about tabs, so you can probably begin to imagine how many hundreds Firefox was opening each time he launched it - including a tab with the youtube video.

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MP80

14 years ago

Lol, I feel like a real light-weight.. I only have 2 open, occasionally 3

I'm definitely not much of a multi-tasker!

Originally Posted by rosetrees

A friend phoned me a few weeks ago to tell me that a few weeks previously he had watched a youtube video of an engine over revving and exploding. Everytime he turned on his computer it was making the exploding noises and he couldn't work out why.

I went round and discovered he was using Firefox, which was set to open all the previous tabs each time he launched it. He knew nothing about tabs, so you can probably begin to imagine how many hundreds Firefox was opening each time he launched it - including a tab with the youtube video.

Haha.. That's funny

I have a friend who I could imagine doing that one lol

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aeri

14 years ago

Apparently I have 12 right now

But I haven't even look at the first 7 for a while now cause they were something that I would look at when I have the time...it's my version of a "temporary bookmark" so it seems

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UMS

14 years ago

I have dual screens with at least 2 browser windows open and around 50-60 tabs open.

I generally have one screen/window for personal stuff, eg: weather, news etc and the other window for IM related stuff.

Can also have Safari and Chrome open at the same time to check compatibilities.

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AlphaRosa

14 years ago

way too many! most of the time between 5-10 tabs in Chrome....

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yesacpow 14 years ago

I think I have ADD no joke lol. Right now I have 12 tabs open (5 of which are warrior threads) and I have 6 windows opened.
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vivi62

14 years ago

I try not to have more than 10 as it can slow down my computer.
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yesacpow 14 years ago

I try to close some of mine sometimes but I can't help it lol. Sometimes am actually hovering the mouse and don't know which ones to close. I'm doing it right now.

Originally Posted by vivi62

I try not to have more than 10 as it can slow down my computer.
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BridgetSielicki

14 years ago

I have 10 open right now, but I definitely get to the point where I have so many I can't find anything. Definitely need to work on that

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CoolCaesar

14 years ago

Sometimes 30 Tabs through multiple browsers .. but most of the times only 2-3

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ezmystic

14 years ago

I have about 15 open at a time, but ignore alot whilst doing a job in hand

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Mike Tyler

14 years ago

The most I've ever had if i remember correclty must be something like 48 tabs. No kidding, remember working on a pain in the ass .NET app.

But on average I have around 10-15 tabs and right now I have 11 tabs open.

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laurencewins

14 years ago

Up to 20 at times if I am working on a couple of things at once but I try to shut things down if I get too many open. Sometimes I bookmark pages so I can go back later.

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fin

14 years ago

3 to 4 max.

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GeorgR.

14 years ago

Originally Posted by damasgate

With IM it's really easy to get distracted and not to take action even when you've bought a plethora of WSOs and You have the system all figured out (WSO junkie here)

So just out of interest, how many tabs do you think you have open in your browser on average and do you think it's seriously hindering you from taking action?

On average 789. I am not even kidding. I need 30mins every day just to close all my browser windows

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OO

14 years ago

Up to 30 sometimes more but then my browser crashes and I lose everything!

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ovilpat00

14 years ago

Right now just 11 LOL

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by damasgate

So just out of interest, how many tabs do you think you have open in your browser on average

Usually 8 in IE, 12 in Chrome. Sometimes a few more depending on what I'm doing.

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timpears

14 years ago

I used to have a dozen or more browser windows open but Firefox would crash often. So I started using tabs to see if that would help. I now only have four or five browsers open with an average of five or six tabs in each browser.

Do I get side tracked? No, not really. I live in a world of confusion.

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Sheryl Polomka

14 years ago

Wow, I find this really surprising that people have so many. I usually only have 3 or 4, occasionally more, but not often. I find if I have too many open I'm just all over the place and can't focus.

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feliciayapsl

14 years ago

More than 5 usually.

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Eddie Titan

14 years ago

Multiple browsers and multiple tabs on two different computer screens.

Sometimes 1-2, sometimes 15-20 tabs. It varies, depending on what I am doing.

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kret0s

14 years ago

On average 10-20...

at that point I open another window - usually having another 10 there at the end of the day...

I have a very bad habit of opening interesting links in new tabs and telling myself I will read them later.... At the end of the day, I don't have time to go through 30 tabs... and end up bookmarking them all...

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blillard

14 years ago

This is a great questions as it shows where we can make changes in the way we browse online. It is clear that we are all distracted and maybe the cause of that can be too many tabs open. Now I can see if you had to do two task one separate sites that would complete one task, but that would take maybe 2-3 tabs at best. I think it we all should see what it is really being noted here, we should monitor how many things we're doing at one time. Right now I got 3 open, here, music, and 202. We should all try to limit our tabs to like 5 or less, it speeds up your pc and work flow with less distractions. Just my thoughts

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CopywritingKing

14 years ago

3 or 4 usually at once; I really don't like it too crowded up there, if you know what I mean.

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BudgetSEO

14 years ago

anything between 1-8

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Cfomodz

14 years ago

56 right now.. Normally 30 - 50... My max ever was 763 tabs. I use a custom build of Firefox of course as anything else would die a horrific death at the sight of more than 100 tabs...

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Jelle Kaldenbach

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Cfomodz

56 right now.. Normally 30 - 50... My max ever was 763 tabs. I use a custom build of Firefox of course as anything else would die a horrific death at the sight of more than 100 tabs...

Mygod! That's a lot :p... Imagine that one starts playing music and you can't find out which one it is (that's already a disaster when I've got like 15 tabs open).

To stay on topic, I average about 10-15... I just rolled out of bed, so now I'm at 4

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Rabindra

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Cfomodz

56 right now.. Normally 30 - 50... My max ever was 763 tabs. I use a custom build of Firefox of course as anything else would die a horrific death at the sight of more than 100 tabs...

LOL! Only 763 Tabs? Superb!

BTW, for me as many warriors already mentioned on their previous posts, it all depends on what you are actually working on. If I am doing a research for something then obviously it would be many and if I am working on a specific project then there would be a few. Having said, there will always be at 5 tabs open at any one time.

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williamrose

14 years ago

Too many. 8 open right now which is a pretty low number for me. Actually picking up another monitor as my screen is too crowded most of the time.

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caplan

14 years ago

personally i don't like tabs that much so my average is about 3

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aramyus

14 years ago

typically a dozen tabs opened and I have a dozen windows with various programs

What I can see is that multi-windows is coming back. In the early 2000s, we were sold with the idea that people preferred a single window, maximized, with 'previous' and 'next' navigation only. What as nasty interface IMHO.

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Augie Johnston

14 years ago

it can get ugly sometimes...

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MarkMOZ

14 years ago

I'd say around 4-5 most of the time. Sometimes I might have even multiple windows open and up to 15 on each depending on what I'm doing.

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imsirigiri

14 years ago

Windows XP SP2 - 2 GB RAM - AMD X2 4000+ Processor

Firefox Browser - 5 to 10 tabs max. More than that my system hangs and I have to wait a long time to get it back.

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Nino

14 years ago

Funny thread...

Right now I have 20..over 20 tabs..

) opened, all packed with information!
Sometimes I say..let's close these tabs and then get to work but I have this habit of impose a work time. Suddenly you could hear me saying: That's it... let's do some actual work, and I open a notepad, plan my next steps and then do them.

So to answer your question Yes! the number of tabs open equals with less productivity but for me...seeing 1 tab open is like seeing 1 sale in the last 30 days.

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