I read through this and I'm not entirely certain I understand. I do know people that bury themselves in dozens of tabs, with s bookmarks toolbar that just confuses the heck out of me each time it's there. Still, I feel like a lot of organization (or lack thereof) falls on the user. However, with the right information management skills, I feel like most people don't ever need more than four tabs open at one time.

ive always thought things like indexing, heirarchy, curation, and visualization were a big part of the cure for thinking of the web as a chaos of infinite links. the problem of distraction described just feels like having too many books again.