Firefox rocks, but due to the fact it changes the way you browse you sometimes end up with tab rot. Tab rot happens when you leave too many things in your tabs waiting for you to go back and read.

In the past, I've tried to make sure that everything is off my tabs and either read or put into bookmarks, but it rarely happens. 

You can break down the types of pages in my tabs so they look like this:

Pages to read later: I have two pages up right now that really look good, but I need to find the time to read them. The first is the Vanity Fair piece on Norad during 9/11 and the second is a PC World article on neat sites. The problem is finding the time to read them.

Pages for reference: There are a few pages that I need to go back and reference for ongoing activities. Of them, two are important. The first is a nice piece on how to get attention for your blog. The second one is baseball reference , which offers statistics on pretty much anyone who has played professional baseball.

Future blogging topics: Lots of pages on this on. I tend to keep them around until I get time to make a statement on them.

The problem in keeping so many tabs is eventually some of them fall away. You may lose them to the page not being available, the page going behind a firewall or overwriting it with another page. 

Firefox is to blame for this problem. It's so easy to let tabs accumulate, especially with the Session Manager extension. I know, I know, it's my own fault, but it's so easy to blame the animals.

I wonder what other people do to combat tab rot? 

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