Right click, ‘close all’. If they were important you would have looked at them already.

I bookmark them and close them so at least they’re out of sight.

As you open them. I consider it an abysmal practice to collect hundreds of open tabs in the first place.

I just close them. All open tabs go away when I turn the computer off for the night.

Threw a bunch of Youtube tabs into a bookmark folder with the month and the year, then closed them all. Did the same about 6 months ago, haven’t really touched any of those and probably won’t touch any of the new ones either. But they’re out of the way now.

Speaking as someone with thousands of tabs currently open on about a dozen windows, just open more tabs.

And if you can’t find an adequate window in which to open them, just open them in a new window.

If even that becomes unmanageable, open another browser.

And if you don’t want to switch from whatever tabs you’ve got open and are already using all your monitors, open it on your phone.

Just make sure to set all your browsers to reopen all tabs after closing, and a session manager extension for when the browser refuses to reopen them (not that you should ever be closing the browser or most programs, or shutting down the computer, of course, but just in case).

Also, if you’re on Windows the SysInternals RamMap utility comes in handy when things start to get sluggish and you need to free memory in a hurry (paginate, really, but same difference). Killing dwm.exe also helps.

For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.

If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.

The only ones I keep open are those I want to revisit without keeping. The ones I want to keep I’ll bookmark, or save a local copy of if I suspect it’s going to not be there later. The rest just get closed. My open tabs count doesn’t even approach hundred let alone hundreds.

Close them. Hoarding tabs is still hoarding.

Bookmark the stuff that warrants a bookmark.

Close the stuff I’m not as interested in as I thought I’d be.

Group remaining tabs by subject (books, articles, products, etc. I have a system).

Close redundant tabs in groups.

I don’t let the problem get that bad in the first place.

On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven’t looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)

Firefox and Tab stash. If I have a lot of tabs I just click the extension button, it archives all as bookmarks and closes everything. It also open its own tab listing everything you saved. Once in a while I revisit the names and decide what to do: save in Joplin if it is an article interesting enough to be saved, save the video if I like it enough, or just delete it.

Just a side note: by default Tab Stash hides the tabs instead of closing it so you can recover it faster. Change it to “close immediately” to free some memory instead.

one at a time

Just close them. Stop hoarding shit you don’t need, tangible or not.