This sort of "control your tabs" advice is aimed at a very specific type of person (or should be, at least): the person who aimlessly opens tab after tab after tab with no direction or reason. A hoarder, but for tabs; they don't want to throw away... er, close, anything.

It's because the article is a response to a recent guest post we had called "Why You Should Never Have Nine Tabs Open." The idea was that you in fact CAN, but if you want to avoid slowdowns, you have to manage them properly or your browser will crumble (or it will just be hard to sift through them).

See my concern with all of this is that any galaxy we are looking at for this info is millions of light years away. MILLIONS of YEARS. thats how old data we are looking at. And if statistics teaches you anything thats that thing happen together in a pattern. So if we can consider our civilization as advanced. an…