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Just did a rough estimate and I have approximately 200 tabs currently open in Firefox on my work laptop.

Of those which were opened more than 1 hour ago, how many have you used in the last hour, would you suppose?

In the last hour? I just started work an hour ago, so like 4.

So the other 196 are sort of, things you’re not working on, but haven’t really done with, and might need again?

I think most people use some combination of notes, bookmarks, history, and search to manage this.

I’m not most people

Obviously.

I’m not being critical. More power to you.

I know there’s lots of people that use lots of tabs and I’m just trying to understand how it works.

Honestly I might dispute your assertion that “most people” are doing anything different. IME, people are generally pretty disorganized.