There’s only one thing worse than having your computer crash if you’ve succumbed to the tyranny of tabbed browsing as much as I have, and that’s temporarily losing sanity (or fine motor control over the mouse… six of one…) and clicking the close button on the browser. Knowing that all those long hours spent middle-clicking links that I’ll come back to later
have now gone to waste, destroyed in an instant by an itchy trigger finger, is enough to make even the most stoic among us utter a prayer to the patron saint of computers and the Internet… or, just maybe, a (not-so-)silent curse at the inventor of the mouse.
But if what was in those tabs was really important or interesting, we would have read them already, wouldn’t we? Perhaps this is a subconscious way of fighting information overload.
Still, sometimes it would be nice to be prevented from doing stupid things.
