The browser I use most is chrome. Usually, whenever I am googling about a topic, I find myself opening too many tabs. I don’t want to close my opened tabs, even the least used ones. Opened-tabs give me a sense of progress. Though I can check the browser history to see my recent visited pages, I prefer to keep the tabs open.
I also hate seeing too many tabs open on the browser window. When the browser window gets too full, instead of closing the old unused tabs, I just open a new window. I even keep old tabs for over a week. This also lowers the performance of my laptop.
Since I spend a lot of time on my browser though out the day, my motivation is to create a clean and simple browser environment. I want to keep the number of tabs on my browser as few as possible. For instance, not opening more than one pages of the same website, like Youtube can help fix the problem. The second solution I came up with is, creating a fixed number of tabs and assigning each of them a specific task. For example every morning I will create 5 tabs on a browser, I will use (1) googling (2) Gmail (3) new classes, (4) Youtube and I will keep the last one for flexibility.
While I was writing this, I found a chrome extension called tab suspender that removes unused tabs after some idle amount of time. I have added the extension to my browser and chosen the suspender to close my tabs after 30mins. The extension also looks for most rarely used and forgotten tabs and close them automatically. This extension helps to save memory and CPU usage. Writing about this tiny habit has helped me come up with this solution. Thank you.