# How many browser tabs do you have open right now?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 16, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411 "2010-06-16T11:55:59Z")
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### Author:  [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/1 "2010-06-16T11:55:59Z")
I just accidentally hit command-Q and was asked if I was sure I wanted to quit and close my 17 windows with 56 browser tabs. How many total browser tabs do you have open now? A window with only one page on it counts as one tab.
Having tons of tabs does slow a computer down, but it’s a lot easier to switch tabs than it is to make and delete bookmarks constantly.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/2 "2010-06-16T12:45:22Z")
I have 1 browser with 3 tabs. they’re all the SDMB threads I’ve opened from the forum table of contents. After I reply to this thread I’ll close its tab. When I’m done with the last thread I’ll close the browser.
I can’t imagine the clutter of your way of doing it.
At work it’s not rare for me to have 4 remote sessions open with 5 to 15 apps in each plus another 5 to 15 on my local physical machine. So I’m not averse to more than one thing at a time.
But in each case it’s the minimum windows/tabs necessary to do the immediate job. Not just leftover crap I opened 4 days ago & might need to look at again tomorrow. That’s what bookmarks & shortcuts & menus & taskbars are for.
Diff’rent strokes and all that.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/3 "2010-06-16T12:59:00Z")
I have a dual monitor setup (both at work and at home). At work I typically have 10-15 tabs per Firefox window, one on each monitor, showing different things on them. At home it’s the same deal but usually only 5-10 tabs per browser window.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/4 "2010-06-16T14:14:00Z")
Nine in Chrome (my “personal stuff” browser) and six in IE (work-related stuff).
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### Author:  [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/5 "2010-06-16T16:31:11Z")
i hit ‘new posts’ then open whatever looks interesting into its own tab in one go before the search expires. much easier than browsing individual forums.
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### Author:  [@Not\_a\_Platypus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_a_Platypus)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/6 "2010-06-16T16:34:46Z")
13 right now, only 3 of them aren’t work-related.
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/7 "2010-06-16T17:24:36Z")
22 in three windows on two monitors.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/8 "2010-06-16T18:14:09Z")
I’m mostly on the same sites all day every day so I leave them all open in one window — 14.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/9 "2010-06-16T18:15:18Z")
My usual 6: My Yahoo!, Gmail, Google Calendar, SDMB, LJ, Google Reader.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/10 "2010-06-16T19:43:59Z")
I’m at work, so four: one to GMail, one to the main SDMB page, one to the IMHO page, and one to this thread.
If I were at home, there would probably be a lot more, depending on what I’m doing at the time.
> [@thirdname](#):
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> Having tons of tabs does slow a computer down, but it’s a lot easier to switch tabs than it is to make and delete bookmarks constantly.
I don’t know what browser you use, but I’m quite sure that at least some of them have the ability to (a) bookmark an entire set of tabs in its own folder and (b) open an entire folder of bookmarks in one window, tabbed. Seems a lot easier than just leaving everything open all the time.
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/11 "2010-06-16T19:50:51Z")
Depends on when you ask me.
My default is five: Yahoo mail, Wiki, Talk Rational, SMDB, and MSDN.
That expands and contracts based upon usage with my median count probably at 9.
I ‘blame’ Firefox. Tabs are wonderful.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/12 "2010-06-16T20:10:13Z")
> [@shijinn](#):
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> i hit ‘new posts’ then open whatever looks interesting into its own tab in one go before the search expires. much easier than browsing individual forums.
Yep, this is how I do it, too, at least, after I’ve exhausted the threads in my User CP link.
Right now, I have three tabs open on one browser. This one, the New Posts page and [RickJay’s blog](http://rickthegreat.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/), because I just discovered it and it’s made of awesome. I’m reading through it backwards whenever you all fail to amuse me in a timely fashion. 😉
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/13 "2010-06-17T02:57:34Z")
You delete your bookmarks?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/14 "2010-06-17T03:03:43Z")
Six tabs (three SDMB, one Google, one Facebook, and one GMail) and four windows.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/15 "2010-06-17T15:51:33Z")
I have 11 tabs that come up in Opera every time I launch it, sites I want to visit daily and don’t want to pick one at a time from bookmarks.
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### Author:  [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/16 "2010-06-17T15:53:31Z")
I didn’t vote, since there’s no “zero” option 🙂
I hate tabbed browsing with the fire if a thousand suns - open windows work the same way, so why duplicate? I can glance at my taskbar to see what’s open.
It’s the first thing I turn off on a new Firefox download.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/17 "2010-06-17T16:35:56Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#):
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> I hate tabbed browsing with the fire if a thousand suns - open windows work the same way, so why duplicate? I can glance at my taskbar to see what’s open.
Hahaha, I feel exactly the same way–about _non_-tabbed browser windows! I loathe, loathe, loathe them. We’re still officially on IE6 at work, and I jumped for joy the day I found a legitimate business reason to request IE7.
I \*hate \*the clutter of having a bunch of browser windows open–makes it hard to switch to other applications. Plus, I like being able to cluster tabs by topic–if I’m going to have a bunch of pages open related to one thing, I can open them as tabs in their own window.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/18 "2010-06-17T16:53:18Z")
My average is five or six. I have three open, just to keep the sites open. The other two or three I go back and forth on. I almost never have more than six. If I have to open more than six, like for a site I want to read later, I will open it in a new background window
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/19 "2010-06-17T16:57:10Z")
Every morning I come in to work and open the support Web site, Facebook and the SDMB. The fourth tab will be the site I’m working on.
If I click on a link from here or FB, I get another tab, peruse it, and close it.
I’ll often have one tab open for Google searches for help with whatever I am working on at the moment.
So, usually 5 but right now just 3 as I don’t have a site open for work and I am not Googling any help topics.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-browser-tabs-do-you-have-open-right-now/543411/20 "2010-06-17T17:12:10Z")
It’s only five now, but recently I managed to have 14 tabs open.
Oh, wait, we’re talking about all browser tabs. Not just Microsoft Excel tabs. My computer can na take it any more.
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