Comments on: Open Thread: What’s Your Browser Tab Usage Style?

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By: Jono Cono

Jono Cono — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:24:26 +0000

I would say transient. If I don’t need a tab open then I close it. It’s pretty much open tabs as required and I don’t get too wild and crazy with it. It’s much nicer having tabs as opposed to multiple windows open. I also like to close my browser when I’m not using it. No excess, just whatever I need at the moment and that’s all!

By: hyperreality

hyperreality — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:45:35 +0000

I have two tabs always open (with Tab Mix Plus session saving): my feed reader (Google Reader) and Netvibes. the rest I open and close as I need. I also don’t use multiple windows, so everything stays on the same window!
Right now, there’s 5 tabs open.

By: kyramas

kyramas — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:12:39 +0000

I always open all 30 tabs from my Bookmarks Toolbar Folder that include mail, news, forums and my weblog and after reading them I close them except the Gmail and my Google personalized page with all the RSS feeds.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:08:32 +0000

I find it depends what I do – when I read news etc from feed readers I will open a bunch at a time, but that’s not for very long – until I read them and then close them

However I’ve found that there are articles that I’d like to keep for future reference so I use things like Yahoo MyWeb to bookmark these pages to read later.

Sine I do web promotion, when I actually do use my browsers for work I tend to have 2 or 3 tabs max open, however I may have multiple browsers each with those 2 or 3 tabs (for testing purposes only – to make sure changes I’ve made actually function on multiple browsers).

I’m a similar neat freak in that sense – I have to close tabs – open tabs bother me. And quite regularly throughout the day I’ll close my browser altogether for the same reason – too many open progams filling my toolbar panel bothers me so a few times a day all my programs get closed (or at the very least shifted to another desktop where I won’t see them :) ).

By: (un)relaxeddad

(un)relaxeddad — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:54 +0000

Interesting – never really thought about it but I’ve got both Firefox and IE7 open with 25 tabs between them. I tend to use tabs as a surfing queue or in-tray. If it’s been open for a couple of days, I’ll close it without worrying. Tabs that are always open? Four of them – work intranet 1/work intranet 2/Netvibes homepage/WordPress admin

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:26:28 +0000

Interesting question, and it’s interesting from a usabilty perspective to read how differently people use tabs.

Myself, I have groups for such things as news, accounts, work projects, etc. I tend to open all tabs in one group, and then close them all as soon as I don’t need them. I have colleagues that keep 50 or more tabs open all the tine — that’s too much for me to manage.

By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:48:58 +0000

Honestly, it depends on what I’m doing. If I’m going through my daily feeds, I skim the info and open items I want to read further into tabs and work my way through them. If I’m blogging, I’ll have random pages up in random order in case I need to access information from another site, or place an adsense ad or compare the admin panel to the live site. Very rarely do I leave tabs open to get to later. If I have to wait that long, I create a folder in my bookmarks and put those pages in that folder.

By: Wynne

Wynne — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:39:42 +0000

I will usually have my feedreader and at least one forum site, and I open almost every external link in a new tab. My browser stays open all the time, sometimes for days at a stretch, especially if I have an ongoing project or two.

By: Sean ODriscoll

Sean ODriscoll — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:53:13 +0000

I have a number of sites that I “preload” via internet options as home pages…so I guess I know longer have a home page, I have several that are core to me…beyond that, I live even more in my RSS feeds. I open a lot of new tabs as I read online and follow various links and don’t want to lose track of where I was.

Right or wrong, that is my approach.
Sean
http://www.communitygrouptherapy.com

By: Joshua Kaufman

Joshua Kaufman — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:39:16 +0000

I usually have email and some Backpack page open at any given time, but beyond that I have a tendency towards cleanliness.

However, as the WebOS becomes increasingly useful, the demand on users to keep individual tabs open for these often used web services becomes frustrating. What would be great is if browsers offered a “tab well” – something similar to the palette well in PhotoShop – that always kept our core web services open and running in the background. They be accessed by clicking on the “tab well” tabs, via a keyboard shortcut or by dragging them onto a foreground tab.

By: next STEPH

next STEPH — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:38:58 +0000

I can’t have anymore than 5 tabs open at a time, else its not manageable. They have to be all related to a project. If there is more that 5 tabs, then I file them in a bookmark folder. For example, all the files for working on a client (marketing accounts, hosting accounts, etc.) If I’m working on another project, it will be a new browser window. The one that Ieave open primarily like everyone has said is Gmail.

By: Matsu

Matsu — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:31:24 +0000

This is amusing. I was criticized yesterday at work because I keep so many browser tabs open and about 20 browser windows open at the same time. I even blogged about it at the suggestion of my co-worker. You can read that post here: http://matsu.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/browser-habits-of-an-it-manager/

My tabs tend to be left open until I am finished acting on that information. I am constantly interrupted in my job, so I don’t seem to get tabs closed until hours or even days later. That works for me. Except when I get too many windows and tabs open and my Mac slows down so much I can’t use it. Then, it gets frustrating.

By: sacredcow

sacredcow — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:40:43 +0000

I’m a hybrid. I tend to leave 5-6 tabs open at all times. I’ll open my site, my forum, meebo, another forum or two and a search tab. That will stay open all day. If I have other on-line projects, I’ll open a fresh window and tab all my research there. I also like to start a window with only my e-mails. But I can’t stand all the clutter of having all that stuff open ad tabbed in the same window.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:22:09 +0000

Transient. I use tabs as a work management tool, so if something is open, then it’s open because it’s still an “active” item. At the end of the day, closing each tab gives me a sense of satisfaction.