If your computer starts to act very sluggish, it might be time to check the number of browser windows you have open. Just for the fun of it, I have counted the browser windows that I have just shoved into Evernote and Instapaper dealt with. Now, I’m an easily distracted inquisitive person but maybe I don’t need to be interested in 109 things at a time…
I think Opera was better suited to me in this regard — whenever the tabs line started looking like a barcode and clicking on a window required more dexterity than an ant could muster, I knew that things were getting out of control but Firefox just shoves everything off to one side…