Forget Tabs

From informationarchitects.jp:

Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin Internet, where ten browser sessions were "many browser sessions". Today, twenty+ parallel sessions is quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. If you have more than seven or eight tabs open they become pretty much useless.

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