Someone was helping me look at an analysis yesterday and commented "ugh your one of those people who have hundred of tabs open at once" It got me wondering how other people work. Are you otganised with one tab at a time, or do you have hundreds, and what are the benefits of one over the other?

I currently have open Outlook (2 tabs) Internet explorer (7 tabs) one folder one word document, SPSS and a pdf. This doesn't seem like much to me!

Oh and are they called tabs? the word sounds funny in my head now!

I think they're tabs all right in relation to the internet but are they not windows for the different word docs. Anyhow, knew what you meant!

You have a lot compared to me but I have been told that I have a lot compared to other people I work with. At the moment I have my college email open, then three other internet tabs; this forum and two other email accounts I have. Then I have two words docs open. So in total I have 6 things on the go - is that a lot? I don't know. I would often have pdfs open as well, just not today!!

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Since I started using Firefox I have become a bit of a tab addict. Particularly as you can restore them in your next session. If I'm browsing a page and there are links I want to look at but haven't finished the main page, I'll open them in the new tab. If I read them straight away then I'll either close them or save them for future use. But if I haven't got time to read it then and there, or I'm not sure if I really want to save it/print it out, or if I want to remind myself to look at it again in the next few days, then I'll leave it open.

I recently discovered that I had.... over 100 tabs open in Firefox.:$ They related to various searches and tangents I've had in my PhD since January - things I've kept just in case I want to look at them but which I didn't think were important enough to save there and then. Then I upgraded to the new version of Firefox and the way they retain your tabs changed and I lost them all. In a way, I'm kinda glad for the clean slate! I'm sure I'll cope just fine without them, but I was hanging on to them 'just in case'.

haha at 100 tabs in firefox. I generally start a new sessions each time, and book mark pages I think I want to come back to. I have a lot of stuff bookmarked from early in my PhD.

On a related note does anyoe else hate the new firefox? I've gone back to internet explorer because of it. I mostly hate the fact it doesn't have the little arrow next to the back button so you can only go back one page at a time.

Apart from the fact that it made me lose all my tabs, yes, Firefox 4 is not making me very happy at the moment. Too many layout changes mean I keep doing the wrong things. I'm sure I'll get used to it but right now it's really grating.

Actually, despite my browser tab addiction, I don't like having too many windows open, crowding up the toolbar at the bottom. So currently just two word docs, ref software, and internet browser (with 9 tabs - it's starting again!)