Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor

Back when Internet Explorer was dominant, and every developer I knew installed Firefox on every family member and their dogs desktop, I remember a big selling point for convincing people to use Firefox was ‘Tabs’. Firefox may not have been the first browser to introduce tabs, but in my experience it was the number one selling point to get people to switch. When interviewing people with a ton of tabs on their screen and asking them why, the most common responses can be somewhat categorized as:

When asking the first group for more information, I realized that a lot of people use tabs as a sort of bookmark.

Source: evertpot.com