[caribousoup]

I'm curious, wouldn't you read the info and process it in your mind, and then close the tab when done? If it's something you will need to reference again later, then bookmark it? Like you know... a book. Put it back on the shelf or have hundreds of books open on the floor.

I do not understand tab people. I do have a meticulously organized bookmark system though. Do tab people use bookmarks much at all?

[LocalPCGuy]

I haven't used bookmarks since the De.licio.us days. Most of the time if I do close a tab and need the information again, I know what to search to find it again. The searching in bookmarks is not as good as Google search. And I've been down the route of trying to meticulously organize bookmarks, and I find that in the midst of opening a bunch of tabs while "researching" something, that doesn't happen and so things are just a mess. Or when looking for them the original categorization doesn't match so I don't find it when looking at folders (same reason I prefer labels like in GMail over email folders).

[dbbk]

No because it's more transient. I'm diving into a topic, opening a few different sources, then following links from those sources into further tabs. But I try to roughly group them in windows so I can just close out the window when I'm done with the topic.

[fao_]

> Put it back on the shelf or have hundreds of books open on the floor.

Which is something people used to do. It was even referenced in movies up until the mid 2000s.