Vertical tabs turned me into a hoarder

I used to make jokes about them, pointing out that having too many tabs open would take up as much space in your head as it does on your screen. But here I am… having more tabs open than I can count on two hands, at all times. It’s especially true for my work laptop. Just the other day I got access to Superlogical’s new terminal multiplexer Rex. And it finally made me realize that vertical tabs have made it so easy to hoard stuff I don’t need. Before I switched to Zen Browser, I used Firefox. I remember downloading Firefox back in the day from <getfirefox.com>, and I don’t think we had tabs as a concept back then. I have a memory of when tabs started rolling out, because whenever my browser opened one, I had no idea how it did it. So I kept them around so I could open multiple websites at the same time. I had no idea what they were called and the browser’s language was not my native tongue, so I just adapted. But when I turned off the computer or just closed the browser, all my…

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