I use the Tab Wrangler extension and have it nuke everything after like 8 hours or so. If I need it again, I can search for it in that extension. I've probably gone back to search for a tab two or three times in the last five years. That 8 hour window is almost always plenty for anything I actually care about.

I close my browsers with prejudice. If it mattered I would have put it into an issue or committed it to SCM before I wandered away from the tab. Also, history exists. If the reason we are keeping our tabs open is because we've disabled browsing history, then I have a simple suggestion to make.

Walking up to my workstation in the morning and seeing all the trash from yesterday's efforts causes me meaningful loss in motivation. I get down to a blank desktop at the end of each day now.

I think everyone is different, but for me bookmarks don't work (I just don't do it) and history rarely works (too much noise there).

Really, most of the time I can just close the tabs, and I will "re-discover" them when needed. But I don't do that: there is a fair amount of tabs that I don't dare closing because I feel like they contain something useful or I may need them.

I found an extension that I use as a "tab cemetery": a place where I can just store all the open tabs once in a while and start from fresh. And the two times a year I actually need to find one of them, I can open the cemetery and search there (it's organised by "dump date").

This extension is called "OneTab" (I have no interest in promoting it, that's just what I use). Works well for me.

I save them to https://histre.com/ [1] using the browser extension. This can save all tabs in a browser window into a collection, or even multiple windows each into their own collection. This also makes everything searchable.

[1] I created it fwiw

RAM/OOM does this for me very effectively. For example, I have opened several dozens of books right now, because when it happens to be a reading time I hate to look for any books in Downloads I am interested to read. I feel better to have opened all the books I am interested in right now. Maybe my reading session will be 5 minutes only, or maybe I want to see what I have read before leaving the reading with as little of digging in interfaces as possible.

I remember the times when 3GB computer could have 300 tabs hanging per months of everyday heavy using of the machine, but now a regular 1000$ computer can not open 300 tabs of modern webpages, so there is none of that problem any more.

In my web browser I have an extension that close them: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/dustman/

My IDE, previously VsCode and now Zen, has a max tabs option to close the oldest ones too.

I don't have more than 15 at once. Only when selecting hn posts to read at once. If they linger much (or anything at all) I will put the "important" ones at my raindrop with the false intent to read some day

If I start to feel it’s too much, I take some time to go through it all and reset back to just what I’m actively looking to working on.

Limit the number of tabs to 10. Or if you want to ignore it completely add more ram and memory.

You close them.

I usually make tab groups to sort the frequently visited tabs properly but still most of the times, I am opening a lot of tabs outside the groups then I keep closing all the tabs outside the groups.

I'm using Notion Web Clipper (as a replacement for Evernote Web Clipper) to save promising links for future reference. Then I close these tabs.

I try to keep my tab count to a reasonable number, and close tabs I'm not using on a regular basis.

Tab stacks to keep them in collapsible groups, and closing the tabs I'm not using anymore

I close them when they get to be too many, like 15 or so

I don't really control them, it just when I feel the system response becomes slow, I close every tab I don't need anymore.

I use the Arc browser -- it has a different way of organizing tabs into spaces in a quite intuitive and easy way.

Pruning. When I feel that I have too many, I go through them (or maybe just a subgroup of them) and close the ones that no longer are relevant or interesting.

This requires a threshold of feeling that they're "too many" while they're still a manageable number...

once a month sort them into groups and then journal about them is how I do it. for instance if I have 5 tabs on braid groups or learning chaldean for my wife mary then it goes into my journal where I paste the 5 links together and share what I learned.

I just wait till I feel I have too many and just nuke them all at one lol.