this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
196 points (93.8% liked)

No Stupid Questions

44505 readers
895 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.

When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.

Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?

(page 5) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can easily hit 30 tabs split roughly 5-10 tabs about the same topic and 3-5 topics going at the same time.

There is about a weeks lag time from moving on from one topic to closing the tabs.

I am never close to 100. I don't even think there are 100 interesting pages on the Internet.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because they hadn't heard of this feature called bookmarks

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because, shockingly, not everyone sees the world the way you do.

Why do people consider the way others do things as flawed, or pathologize the behaviours of others?

Also, browser history is awful.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.

Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I'm regularly doing a small job for one client here, another there, and so on, so it's easier to just leave them open.

I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.

It's messy, but it works on the whole. It's a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it's safe to close! 😁

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bookmarks are where projects go to die.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

because i forget to close useless ones.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Idk how many tabs I even have on my Fennec

I open a tab, read half of it.

"I'll finish it later"

opens another tab

repeat forever...

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am surprised by all the ADHD responses. I have ADHD and being able to see all the tabs I'm not using makes me anxious. I have to close them. If I really need them, I move them to a separate window and pretend it's not there.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I can almost never find things in my browser history. I keep windows with relevant tabs open on separate workspaces.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I easily hit 500+ tabs, usually against 1000 or so, and usually spread around over 40 windows on 4 different desktops, so it's fairly wellp organized as all tabs in a window are about the same subject.

Most auto close after about 15 mins to spare resources because websites these days just are insanely heavy. I used to do 2000 sites with maybe 32GB mem, now I need a tab auto closer to be able to manage half of that.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It's very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend has ADHD and 300 tabs. I'm pretty sure they are related.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›