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Breaking old habits is hard but sometimes worth it. Is opening a bunch of background tabs a really efficient way of doing things? On a PC it works if you have a
by jsz0 17y ago
Breaking old habits is hard but sometimes worth it. Is opening a bunch of background tabs a really efficient way of doing things? On a PC it works if you have a high enough resolution to display all the open tabs and enough RAM/CPU to quickly switch between them. On mobile devices it pays to focus on more efficient ways of doing things because you're dealing with limited resolution, potentially slower 3G networks, limited CPU/RAM/battery, etc. That being said there are browsers on the App Store that support tabs.
- binspace 17y agoI remember how annoying opening multiple web pages were before tabs. I don't want to be constrained. Being able to open tabs is better than not. If the hardware/network does not support that very well, that is an issue with the hardware/network.
- wanderr 17y agoI would argue that tabbed or multi-windowed browsing is most important on limited resource and low bandwidth devices. The main advantage of opening a tab/window in the background is not having to wait for it to load; the longer the wait, the more that functionality matters. I used the ability to open links in a new window extensively as soon as browsers offere that functionality, which was probably on a 133MHz machine with less than 256MB of RAM on a 14.4kbps (or 9600 baud...not sure) connection if I remember my computing timelines correctly.