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I didn't think I'd watch someone with 30 tabs open in the same window trying to look for a tab, failing to find it, and then opening the same page in a new tab, but I did and it was very uncomfortable to watch.

I assumed that people with 20+ tabs open in the same window might simply have some different way of organising or remembering them that I didn't understand, but I'm starting to think they don't.

I am one of those people, and I just realized that this subject is always touched by people that are uncomfortable by it, while at the same time we just don't care. What's going on here? Why are some people very uncomfortable/puzzled by it?

From my perspective, leaving the tab open is just the laziest strategy to manage tabs, I don't have to decide if I am finished with the tab right now, and I also get some kind of chronological sorted history of tabs opened so ... why not?

The problem with those solutions is that they tend to be even higher friction than just deciding if to close or not the tab, because for them to be useful you have to classify them in some way, and I kid you not, leaving tabs open leaves you with a surrounding context that bookmarks do not preserve

(Oh btw, leaving the tab open also preserves editions you have made on inputs, scrolling position, and other states of the page), so you can rebuild what you were thinking when you opened that tab weeks/months/years ago.