Comment by perryizgr8
2 years ago
I like Arc because it auto-closes tabs you haven't touched for 12 hours. I have not missed a single tab because of this behaviour. If I didn't need it for 12 hours, I probably don't need it. And if I do want to go back some time later, it's better to restart the discovery process to regain the lost context anyway.
12 hours is the default. You can also configure it for 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. I stick with the default of 12 hours because it pretty much matches my pre-Arc tab pruning habits, just saves me the effort of doing it manually. Arc is great.
Even in the middle of heavy research, I will periodically tidy up my unused tabs. I treat them as completely ephemeral. If I need to recall something, I'll bookmark it or find it in my history.
I genuinely cannot understand people that have hundreds or thousands of tabs open. It seems bonkers to me; almost pathological, like digital hoarding. I would probably hate to see how they keep their filesystem or their home.