Some people are born to be tabulous, while others (like me) are mostly anti-tab. I’m referring to the tabbed windows in Safari, which can multiply like rabbits in spring as you Command-click or Command-Shift-click to open links from the window you’re viewing in another. I hear tales of people with hundreds of tabs they leave open, and it gives me the heebie-jeebies—I keep tabs open only as long as I need them.
While your working method is your own and, of course, valid no matter what your choices, there’s a downside to having a lot of tabs: you might accidentally close multiple tabs you need, close a window full of tabs, or suffer a Safari or macOS crash that doesn’t restore your windows. I’ve found Safari remarkably resilient in recent years to crashes of all sorts, and rarely have this problem. But because I don’t have windows full of tabs, even if I lost one, it wouldn’t have the same impact.
