How could you possibly use Chrome with that many tabs and not have tabs on the side?
I routinely have 50-100 tabs open in Firefox, memory usage is great, even with a bunch of add-ons, from versions 26-28. Granted, some of my add-ons help reduce overall resources by blocking cookies and scripts. Also 'click to play' is a necessity so Flash only loads on the few sites I allow.
Also try Ghostery and Disconnect if you want to block known advertising sites. It lets through all the requests to cloud providers like
I would love a noscript/request policy like addon that would allow me to substitute "common" shared resources, like jquery or bootstrap, from a local cache.
fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.