Same. Maybe SomaFM if I'm streaming music and another tab for a search engine if I'm searching something at the same time. Otherwise I just jump in, jump out, one tab.
I keep two windows side by side: the left one has my email, youtube and sometimes a comic I'm reading or audiobook; the right one has a browser virtual pet game I check every few hours and is where I open new tabs to check lemmy, imgur, etc. Pretty clean! But then the moment I work on either art or coding I open a third window that usually gets to 10+ tabs oops
I keep folders of bookmarks and then right click > open all in tabs depending on what i'm doing.
i like to start with by opening a bunch of tabs depending on my task, then close them as i progress. if i need to stop with many tabs still open, like with topics being researched for projects, i'll save all tabs to a temp folder to resume later. about once a month i clean the temp folder and sort things i want to save in various categorical folders.
the categories are divided in a hierarchal manner of my own design, which is arbitrary and fluctuates constantly. my last count showed i was just a few shy of 2,000 bookmarks. it's current state is like this:
myshit
-my emails
-my websites (created by me)
-mine (sites with content about me but not made by me, like interviews)
-my cloud storage
-friends sites
-job search
-gov shit
-banking
-adult
-hookers (dating sites and local shopping like craigslist)
tools
-testing
-networking
-conversions
-freeshit
-search engines
-info (things like cheat sheets, connector and componant ID's, thesaurus, etc)
maps (i like maps)
-weather
-geology
-contamination
-space
-water
-animals
-electronic
-human stuff
-other
all this shit
-ai
-art
-audio
-auto (need to remove as my car died and i can't afford a new one)
None. I open what I need and then close it after I've used it. I feel like I'm the weird one because so many people seem to live with countless tabs open all the time. I think people who keep tabs open have no sympathy for power, cpu, and ram usage. Nutters.