Yea, I think this depends on when you grew up learning your browsing habits. Back in my day lol when tabs came around, the computers could only handle a small handful before bringing the computer to its knees. Now the browsers don’t actively load the other tabs but I still can’t stand to have more than maybe 10 tabs when I’m researching something before I get an eye twitch.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Shit, I never thought about it that way, but you may be onto something here. Not only tabs were heavy, they weren’t isolated into processes in most early implementations (IIRC that was the big Chrome selling point early on) and could crash your whole browser, so it made me extremely nervous opening too many tabs as I could lose it all with one error.

[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

You’re remembering correctly. Back when chrome was the lightweight browser with the cutting edge features. So much enshitification since then :(

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

You also couldn't "restore session" if (when) the browser crashed because you had too many tabs open.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still not used to having tabs. I think makes me old.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

I can’t do it. The instinct is the computer can’t handle it. The moment I think I’m done I close the tab. If I need it again later, I can visit again.