I currently work at intel now. And as sad as it is, my current job is going really slow so, no I don’t have much to do (That’s why I’m here!).
Anyway I only have one tab open Luke and that’s for this blog. Oh yes.

All the intel links require IE unfortunately, but they allow Chrome so I just keep both browsers open. And the other has a PGP site open. Confidential you know…

Until I did some serious clean-up, I had 247 tabs on Firefox. And it barely effected performance. I love my little Firefox. Chrome crashes on me whenever I go over 40 or so.

I have very few right now actually as I haven’t been surfing too long. I always keep the same browser session and tend to accumulate tabs like they’re going to go. Right now not too many though..

1. Last fm profile
2. A forum
3. Tumblr dashboard
4. iGoogle
5. Facebook
6. GMail (on my domain)
7. Blog post to read
8. This blog post

I currently have 2 windows. I dont usually do this, but now I watch video so it is better. (Video is on second screen)

1) window
# gmail
# greader
# twitter
# reddit
# this post
2)
# youtube day9 daily

Using mostly Chromium. I have whichever tabs left open from the previous session.
I have no permanent tabs: my “New Tab” page holds everything I need: Gmail, Google Reader, Facebook, Terminally Incoherent, a couple of CMS backends, etc.
My “gateways” are Reader and Diigo.

@ David:
If you’re on Chrome/Chromium, try Tab Sugar (!)

Steve wrote:

If you’ve read an article, I cannot fathom why in hell you would need to leave the tab open. That doesn’t seem to be a “young vs old” thing, I think it’s more a disorganized vs organized (or in my case, semi-organized) person.

I don’t think it’s about reading the article and leaving it open – it’s about opening multiple articles at once, and then reading them one by one.

Instead of Open Article1 -> Read -> Close -> Open Article2 -> Read -> Close, etc
I tend to do Open Article1 -> Open Article2 -> Read Article1 -> Close Article1 -> Read Article2 -> Close Article2.

So Article2 sits in “limbo” while I read Article1. If I have plenty of articles/pages to read, the tab list gets really big :)

@ Ronnie:

Will do once I get home if I don’t forget. :)

@ Chris Wellons:

I actually considered using vimperator at one point, but I’m just so used to Firefox way of doing things, I would have a hard time re-adjusting. For text editor making that leap makes sense because you get all the additional power. I’m not sure if it is worth the time and effort to re-learn my web browsing habits though. :P

@ David:

I love this feature. I want it now.

Actually, I want to be able to create a bookmark to a tab group that I could pin to my bookmarks toolbar giving me instant access to my most commonly used groups without needing to zoom out.

Other than that, amazing feature.

The new firefox beta (4.0a/b I think) has a pretty nifty feature.
http://vimeo.com/13560319

I guess I don’t really like having a lot of tabs open, but there are times when I’ve opened quite a few things up. Right now though, it’s a pretty short list:

1. Gmail
2. Detnews.com article I was reading
3. Ubuntu.com (I was downloading a new ISO to reinstall on my laptop)
4. Facebook
5. Terminally Incoherent

Usually I have Google Reader open too, but I just cleared out all the new stuff so I shut the tab down. I guess Gmail is the one that I ALWAYS leave open. Everything else sort of ebbs and flows.

I’m quite a lightweight tab user. Currently I only have 8 tabs open. I don’t tend to use sessions (although occasionally I will if I have to leave the computer without finishing what I’m doing. If there are only a few things I want to read/remember temp I put a bookmark in a temp folder, then when I get time just pull things up as I need them.

My usual browsing habits are routinley opening bookmarked pages (depending on the day) skimming through the crap, then leaving open the bits I want to read. I do this every day. I USUALLY managed to read/bookmark what I whant before I leave the computer, so all tabs are closed before bed!

Current tabs :

0. Gmail
1. This one
2. SMBC
3. Hackurls
4. cannonmat blog (rereading an old post)
5. TV guide (so I can see what I’ll not be watching tonight)
6. Nerdkits forums (MCU geeks – worth looking at)
7. My buisness site (redesigning it – checking for problems)

Interestingly enough, I was having a similar conversation in the Pub the other night about what people usually have open in their browser – I was the only one who didn’t say porn!