@lizardsquid Good luck with that, I don't know how you'd do it.
I noticed in my own efforts to keep tabs within the icons-still-show-in-the-tabs stage I eventually ended up bookmarking articles to a folder for later reading. I know full well that I'll never look into that folder for reading material, but it seems to satisfy my "I'll get to it" urge enough that I can close the tab and forget about it.