almost NEVER more than 5 or 6
once in a blue moon ????
maybe 8

WHY the "Fv<?" would any one want 100 or more open !!!

13 right now...

Well, in the morning reading various news etc, especially a Monday morning, absolutely yes.

Next, when browsing the forums and opening various threads and forums, also yes.

For work, I also do keep open tabs to retain information I haven't yet decided to bookmark. There's a ton of "spec" work I do and I search a lot for ideas to get to a technical solution. I've found that there are TONS of "I did it", or "Here's how you ..." links, and many times TONS-5 turn out to be complete wastes of time unfortunately.

I open as much as I need and then I close what I don't need anymore

I rarely keep more than a half dozen tabs open. But in my old Konqueror browser which i use heavily for development and maintenance, usually have a few long-standing tabs which I keep open because the url arguments are important and difficult to reproduce from scratch. Furthermore, this browser has no 'Restore Tabs' or similar option. So that if I mistakenly delete one of these long-standing tabs, I have on occasion done a hard reboot, hitting the power strip button so as to bypass a clean shutdown and boot back to the old tab state.

Does this risky practice qualify me as a tabaholic?

Were there a 'Not sure' radio option, I would have answered the survey.

Personally, I prefer Diet Coke to Tab, but I can't remember ever drinking more than one at a time.

They re-made Tab. I bought a 6 pack about a year ago. So-so.

when i'm searching for a solution to a problem, i can have more than 10 tabs open.
equally when participating on forums (opening interesting topics from "what's new").
but otherwise, no.
i don't even bookmark so much anymore since i realized that firefox has this wonderfully intelligent search-as-you-type function for the url bar. just typing "tabah" will bring me back to this thread.

Even when working with a fresh window, I sometimes open a bunch of links I plan to read by right clicking and doing a "open link in new tab"
then I go from one tab to another and when I finish reading, I close the tab. When I want to read several things out of a list, it works well.

Tip: If you middle-click (pressing the mousewheel on an actual mouse, or clicking both buttons or tapping with three fingers on most laptop touchpads) it will open up the link in a new tab on most browsers.

I guess I'm a tabaholic alright. I've been known to have so many tabs open in not just one web browser window but three windows. Eventually the browser gets unstable and I end up starting over.