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Honestly, I'm not all that enthused about this. Once Safari segregated plug-ins to separate processes, I've literally not had a single crash from a stable vers

Honestly, I'm not all that enthused about this. Once Safari segregated plug-ins to separate processes, I've literally not had a single crash from a stable version (there was a buggy nightly build about a week or so ago that crashed twice in a day — oh, the humanity!). I use my browser pretty much 16 hours a day, and can easily have 50+ tabs at any given point in time. Even though Chrome has extensions that I would appreciate, since each one of Chrome's tabs has to set up its own address space, it uses a significantly higher amount of RAM than Safari altogether — which makes Safari the browser I use 95% of the time.

zefhous 17y ago
If Apple waited until they needed something like this, it would already be too late. That's why they are doing it now. It's not that WebKit isn't good enough as is, they just want to make it that much better.
jollojou 17y ago
I have always wondered why people keep so many browser tabs open. From my point of view, open tabs represent unfinished tasks or web pages I should go back to as soon as possible. At work, I have four browser instances open: three Chromes and one Firefox. I have placed two of them on the same virtual desktop, and the remaining two browser instances are on separate virtual desktops. On the first virtual desktop I manage my work-related tasks, such as company email, Hudson and VersionOne, a project management tool for agile software. The browser on the second virtual desktop is for developing software: the web application I develop is on it. The third virtual desktop is for fun and free time use. Altogether I have about ten browser tabs open; even that is too much. I feel that the more tabs I have open the more fragmented my attention is.
sohooo 17y ago
I loved the Omniweb tabs sidebar for this high amount of open pages. Sadly, the development of it kinda stalled.
othermaciej 17y ago
Memory use is one of the things we're going to watch out for as we make progress on the new model.

zefhous 17y ago

If Apple waited until they needed something like this, it would already be too late. That's why they are doing it now. It's not that WebKit isn't good enough as is, they just want to make it that much better.

jollojou 17y ago

I have always wondered why people keep so many browser tabs open. From my point of view, open tabs represent unfinished tasks or web pages I should go back to as soon as possible. At work, I have four browser instances open: three Chromes and one Firefox. I have placed two of them on the same virtual desktop, and the remaining two browser instances are on separate virtual desktops. On the first virtual desktop I manage my work-related tasks, such as company email, Hudson and VersionOne, a project management tool for agile software. The browser on the second virtual desktop is for developing software: the web application I develop is on it. The third virtual desktop is for fun and free time use. Altogether I have about ten browser tabs open; even that is too much. I feel that the more tabs I have open the more fragmented my attention is.

sohooo 17y ago

I loved the Omniweb tabs sidebar for this high amount of open pages. Sadly, the development of it kinda stalled.

othermaciej 17y ago

Memory use is one of the things we're going to watch out for as we make progress on the new model.