Chrome can technically run 9,000 tabs. Your brain starts to stress at 8. Here's the research, the real ceiling, and what actually fixes the gap.
Open tabs are cognitive spaces
Nobody actually wants to use a web browser. It becomes evident the second you open your browser and notice that you don’t have internet connection. What we like about browsers is what they offer on the other side. What they connect us to. In that sense, browsers are transitory spaces - similar to airports, planes and train stations. Most of us have lost our childish curiosity towards these spaces - we go there because we want to arrive somewhere else. Arriving somewhere else with early browsers was quite one-dimensional - you clicked your way from one website to the next, in the same window. You surfed. You bookmarked the pages that you wanted to return to. Later, as the web became richer, you sometimes had more than one browser window open. I vividly remember having seven Internet Explorer windows open, thinking to myself “this is way too much to keep track of!”. Right now, my Firefox has 477 tabs open. How could this happen? Tabs are externalized cognition
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Your brain isn't broken. Your browser is. Horse Browser replaces tabs with Trails, a branching sidebar that keeps every page visible.
Feeling overwhelmed by normal browsers? - Horse Browser
Your brain isn't broken. Your browser is. Horse Browser replaces tabs with Trails, a branching sidebar that keeps every page visible.
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samuelmaddock/electron-browser-shell
A minimal, tabbed web browser with support for Chrome extensions—built on Electron.
