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BlackSnack lemmy.zip BlackSnack@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-29
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Phone= 13

Lappy= 6

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Dave lemmy.nz Dave@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-02
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

My phone tells me I have ∞ open.

I'm not sure how to easily count on my computer (firefox), I have vertical tabs on, I have to scroll, and many of the tabs are in collapsed groups...

And before you ask, yes all the tabs are important and necessary.

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TootSweet lemmy.world TootSweet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Only 29.

Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab.

But yeah. That's on the low side compared to usual for me.

(Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)

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rockSlayer lemmy.blahaj.zone rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-02-24
#4 · Quote Reply

1 tab on my phone

18 tabs on my laptop across 4 virtual desktops

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SubArcticTundra lemmy.ml SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-03
#5 · Quote Reply

I have a bookmark folder called Zombie Tabs that I periodically tidy the zombie tabs into

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SubArcticTundra lemmy.ml SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-03
#6 · Quote Reply

I have a bookmark folder called Zombie Tabs that I periodically tidy the zombie tabs into

Also there's a FF extension called Tab Session Manager that removes the problem of keeping hold of tabs entirely

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rockSlayer lemmy.blahaj.zone rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-02-24
#7 · Quote Reply

Only 29. Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab. But yeah. That's on the low side compared to usual for me. (Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)

Damn, I'm impressed that your rpi can handle that many tabs. Mine can only handle a few loaded pages at a time

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ChonkyOwlbear lemmy.world ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#8 · Quote Reply

I don't know. Firefox displays an infinity symbol after 99.

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eldavi lemmy.ml eldavi@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-18
#9 · Quote Reply

Only 29. Well, 30 now that I opened this thread in a new tab. But yeah. That's on the low side compared to usual for me. (Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 4.)

how does it do with videos using your browser?

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Ada piefed.blahaj.zone ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-06
#10 · Quote Reply

I set them to close automatically after 24 hours, because I have having more tabs open than I can track. I explicitly don't use them as "read later" bookmarks.

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RisingSwell lemmy.dbzer0.com RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-20
#11 · Quote Reply

Laptop 1 (yt subscription page, which is my homepage) and phone 0.

Loading a page means the other pages have issues if they are also trying to load and my internet can't really do 2 things at once.

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mcSlibinas lemmy.world mcSlibinas@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-18
#12 · Quote Reply

1 on pc 1 on phone 95% of time. 4 or 5 when buying things and can be 8-9 when searching software related answers.

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BananaPeal sh.itjust.works BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-26
#13 · Quote Reply

All of them.

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LoremIpsumGenerator lemmy.world LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-02
#14 · Quote Reply

PC = 1
Mobile phone = yes

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braindamagebuddy lemmy.world braindamagebuddy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#15 · (edited) Quote Reply

phone ~50

tablet ~30

pc ~20

work pc ~100

I used to be a no tabs person too, what happened ;-;

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β„•π•–π•žπ•  slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
#16 · Quote Reply

four, anything more than a handful makes me anxious

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bobbyfiend retrolemmy.com bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2026-06-21
#17 · Quote Reply

Look. I don't come here to be verbally abused.

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Helix 🧬 feddit.org helix@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-27
#18 · Quote Reply

four, anything more than a handful makes me anxious

Same, that's why I open more than 100 on my phone so the number disappears 😬

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fubarx lemmy.world fubarx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-07
#19 · Quote Reply

On laptop, go until browser crashes in a loop.

One time, had to reboot three times so I could close some of the windows before they locked up.

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Seaguy05 lemmy.world Seaguy05@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-08
#20 · Quote Reply

Phone 23
Laptop 30
Desktop 5

Most are on going research or projects I've got going.

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jtrek startrek.website jtrek@startrek.website
Joined: 2026-02-22
#21 · Quote Reply

Desktop: 0. It's off. I close the browser when I'm done

Phone: the number says 64, but only 25 "active". I should probably prune.

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B0rax feddit.org B0rax@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-22
#22 · Quote Reply

I have just tidied up a bit… my phone was on ~470ish tabs. (Btw, did you know that the limit in safari on iOS is 500 tabs?)

Now my phone has 50.

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Doc Birb lemmy.ml doctorbirb@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-26
#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Phone - 60 πŸ’€

Desktop - 5

Laptop - 0 because it is off lol

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NichtElias sh.itjust.works NichtElias@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-09
#24 · Quote Reply

Phone: 59
Desktop: 400+
Luckily Firefox doesn't actually load all of those

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dhcmrlchtdj__ lemmy.world dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-11
#25 · Quote Reply

Hate to say it but I have probably 500 tabs opened combined

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yxc999 lemmy.ml yxc999@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-02
#26 · Quote Reply

PC 0

Laptop 0

Phone 2

Y'all are psychopaths

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BassTurd lemmy.world BassTurd@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
#27 · Quote Reply

I have a tab group on my desktop with tools to maintain my Plex server. I think there are 4 tabs in it. That's collapsed, but there. Then I'll have the one tab I'm actually using, often a second tab on another monitor streaming music or video.

0 tabs on phone.

0 tabs on laptop.

Reading through these comments... There's a lot of psychos in here. Some of y'all have hundreds of tabs open. Why?

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Little1Lost gehirneimer.de Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de
Joined: 2026-05-11
#28 · Quote Reply

cant check laptop and pc but phone (waterfox) says ∞

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jaygray91 piefed.zip jaygray91@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-07-17
#29 · Quote Reply

Phone = 69
Computer = I don't know

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Nihilore quokk.au Nihilore@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-01-29
#30 · Quote Reply

1

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PlantDadManGuy lemmy.world PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
#31 · Quote Reply

49

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tyler programming.dev tyler@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
#32 · (edited) Quote Reply

Phone: 169 in Safari, inf in Firefox

Computers: uhhhhhhh probably several thousand? It would take quite a while to get a number.

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jela lemmy.today Jela@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-08-12
#33 · Quote Reply

Phone: 72 πŸ’€
Laptop: ~25

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kugel7c feddit.org kugel7c@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-30
#34 · Quote Reply

Phone just says ∞
PC is 0 atm usually like 3-20

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NauticalNoodle lemmy.ml NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-03-13
#35 · Quote Reply

phone: 57 laptop: ~3ish

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Admetus sopuli.xyz Admetus@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-07
#36 · Quote Reply

I don't know. Firefox displays an infinity symbol after 99.

And I may have god knows how many inactive tabs. Ha!

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a4ng3l lemmy.world a4ng3l@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#37 · Quote Reply

In the browser you ask? 194 + 9 incognito.

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Newhere lemmy.ml Newhere@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-04
#38 · Quote Reply

And I was thinking I am really bad with my 6 opened... πŸ˜…

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Ptsf lemmy.world Ptsf@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-15
#39 · Quote Reply

iPhone: 499
Laptop: 0

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monovergent lemmy.ml monovergent@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-11-27
#40 · (edited) Quote Reply

Phone: 316

Desktop: 294

Laptop: 79

You could say I'm making use of all the ram I've installed

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TootSweet lemmy.world TootSweet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#41 · (edited) Quote Reply

Damn, I'm impressed that your rpi can handle that many tabs. Mine can only handle a few loaded pages at a time

My experience is that it has more to do with what's loaded in the tab than how many tabs are open. One tab can cause everything to run at like 1fps if it's bloated. ("Graphic design is my passion" kind of pages with tons of animations, usually.) But 100 Lemmy-UI tabs is no problem at all.

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vortexal lemmy.ml vortexal@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-04-17
#42 · Quote Reply

Currently just two, the tab for this page and another for Sekibanki's theme from Touhou 14.

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TootSweet lemmy.world TootSweet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-04
#43 · (edited) Quote Reply

how does it do with videos using your browser?

My experience is that the performance of videos depends a lot on how much of the screen the video takes up. More so than on the quality setting (480p, 720p, 1080p). Usually when I want to watch a video, I limit it to about 1/4 of the area of my 1920x1080 screen. But YouTube is pretty watchable. I don't think even when you select something like 720p@60fps or whatever that it ever actually gets up to 60fps, and sometimes the parts that don't compress as well drop a few frames (strobing in particular does that), but it's really not bad if you're ok with not doing full-screen.

Also, it depends where the video is hosted. If the JS is really light on the page, it's way more performant. If the JS is really heavy, I sometimes have to wait tens of seconds for it to render the first frame.

But also, this Raspberry Pi is mostly my Lemmy box. Not my main box.

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mrmorganiser sh.itjust.works mrmorganiser@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-22
#44 · Quote Reply

Phone = 1701

Laptop = 6

Desktop = 0

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Krzd lemmy.world Krzd@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#45 · Quote Reply

Phone: 71 (largely grouped, maybe 20 "independent" ones)
Desktop: ~700, spit into 6 windows, and grouped inside those windows, Vivaldi is a life saver if you're hording

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Hudell lemmy.dbzer0.com Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#46 · Quote Reply

Phone = 1

Work PC = 100+ (most of them pinned and organized into folders)

Personal PC = ~10

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Dæmon S. catodon.rocks dsilverz@catodon.rocks
Joined: 2026-05-13
#47 · Quote Reply

Phone = 3 on Fennec (Catodon Home Feed, the Lemmy global feed from a Lemmy instance and the Wiktionary definition for "sturgeon")Laptop (where I'm currently) = 2 on Waterfox (Catodon writing this reply, and your Lemmy thread as seen from a Lemmy instance)!asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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hoshikarakitaridia lemmy.world hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-31
#48 · Quote Reply

Probably 150-200 on my PC.

About 4 on my phone.

Yes I have a problem, no I don't wanna talk about it.

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Meatwagon piefed.blahaj.zone Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-21
#49 · Quote Reply

Home PC: 5

Phone: Infinity symbol

Work PC: 43

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some_random_nick lemmy.world some_random_nick@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-12
#50 · Quote Reply

Shhh... We don't talk about those

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BorgDrone feddit.nl BorgDrone@feddit.nl
Joined: 2025-06-10
#51 · Quote Reply

Phone: 179
iPad: 148
Work laptop: 206
Personal laptop: 15

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