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Google Developer Says Chrome Team is Working on a Scrollable Tabstrip For the Browser (techdows.com)
If you're a tab-hoarder, and you use Chrome browser, Google may have some news for you soon. The company is working on a scrollable tabstrip to make it easier for users to navigate through tabs, a developer was quoted as saying. Peter Casting, who works on Chrome UI, said, "scrollable tabstrip is in the works. In the meantime, try shift-clicking and ctrl-clicking to select multiple tabs at once, then drag out to separate Windows to group tabs by Window." TechDows, which first reported the development: We're expecting this as the related bug, the 'UI: tab overflow' bug created 10 years back, reports opening too many tabs causes add tab button (+) to disappear and tabs do not scroll then, the expected result has been mentioned as 'scrollable tabs.' Further reading: Google is raiding Firefox for Chrome's next UI features.
For me it's usually because I'm working on something specific so I'll have maybe a dozen tabs related to that project that I flip through. Then I get another project but I don't want to lose my place with the previous project so now there are a dozen more tabs. Then another thing comes up that I have to work on, dozen more tabs.
As I complete projects I do close out the tabs but still at any given time I may have half a dozen things I'm working on and each one has a dozen tabs. Some projects take years to complete so those tabs just hang around.
Firefox's old tab groups was not perfect but pretty good compared to anything else. I could just have a group for each project with an easy overview page that let me move tabs around or switch to a specific project. I can't believe they removed that functionality. Idiots. I'm waiting for some dumbass millennial to have a revolutionary "new idea" that is the exact same thing.
Try Firefox, tab management and scrolling has been a "feature" for quite a long time now;
and Firefox Quantum (v57+) is generally faster than Chrome if not the same, and uses less memory on Windows.
Well if you have 100 tabs opened on average, the problem is with you and not the browser.