[TxMt] Automatic vs. manual tabs

In TextMate, buffer tabs are automatic: A new tab is always opened whenever you click on a file in a project drawer. After a half hour of navigating source code, I suddenly find dozens of tabs open at the top of my editor window, but I can only see a few of them. This makes the tabs feature basically unusable.

In contrast, web browser tabs operate quite differently. They're manual instead of automatic: A new tab doesn't open unless you explicitly open one. Until then, new data is displayed in the current tab. TextMate's tab feature would be much more useful to me if it worked this way --- the way web browsers do.

Does anyone prefer the current (automatic) behavior?

Trevor