Ever had so many tabs the browser started to freeze?

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I just had to 'save' a session I had... in total 145 tabs. Just indicative of my sprawling mind...

Wow what the f**k Why did you need that many tabs? I always cut down to as little as possible.

If you are going to open 145 tabs
1, You better increase your computers memory or buy a machine with much more memory
2. Increase the speed of your internet connection

You will have problems as there is a good chance that.
1. You will open a slow website
2. On one or more of the 145 websites will cause a conflict with the Flash player

It also depends on what browser you use, to what the maximum tab limit is.
I should see how many tabs my Late 2011 Macbook Pro can open with 16GBs of RAM.

I don't think it's because you have so many tabs----I've got, like, 70 tabs (in 7 groups----Firefox----and, they're NOT all OPEN), and it does it to me, every once-in-awhile. I think it's the website, that you were trying to access, that makes your browser, hang.

Also, I'm on Dial-up.....

There is a tab limit based on browser and system specs.
When you hit that limit, your browser will lock up and/or crash.

Depending on the websites that you had loaded up some may be "phoning home" and asking for new info all the time. Websites like facebook will do this.

Firefox isn't even supposed to actually load all tabs at the same time... ideally browsers only load those that the user focuses on, although that doesn't seem to be the default in Opera. So, I'm not sure why it freezes when they're only in the background...

Firefox doesn't load pages in other tabs until you switch to them, unless you turn this off in about:config (think it can be turned off in normal settings too).

If my tab bar gets full, I just start bookmarking pages and go back to them later.

If you use a really old PC, it'll crash with two tabs.

Really old laptops can be used to roast things. That's one of the small pleasures in life energy efficiency is killing.

True. Actually this can be more of a problem for these sites. Not for facebook which has massive cloud resources but smaller ones.

Say site uses a poling script, e.g. a "who is online" plugin. If a handful of users leave a dozen tabs open. The requests start to stack up and they can effectively DOS your site, albeit not deliberately.

People can be be quite naive, about "cool features" they want on their sites and don't really consider how they will support it.

You can do long polling or websockets but even this would put pressure on the server. Rule of thumb, either put limit or ensure your resources are adequate.