The number of tabs you have doesn’t correlate to the number of active web views you have, if you use any browser that unloads background tabs while still saving their state.

I'm fairly sure that if you open up the web messengers, Gmail, etc, the browser can't and won't unload them, because they're active in the background.

It's fairly easy to hit a few GB of RAM used up just with those.

how many is "many"? I'm also on an M1 Mac 8 GB RAM and I have 146 chrome tabs open without any issues.

I could never understand how people operate with more than a dozen or so open tabs.

Those are the type of "I'll go back later to it", The workflow on modern browser is broken. Instead of leveraging the bookmark functionality to improve the UX, we have this situation of user having 50+ tabs open, because they can. It takes quite a bit of discipline to close down tabs to a more manageable numbers.

Well, there are how many browser out there? 50? And opening tabs with something like Tree Style Tabs still is the best user experience.

> It takes quite a bit of discipline to close down tabs to a more manageable numbers.

Or you just click the little chevron in Tree Style Tabs or equivalent and 100 tabs are just hidden in the UI.