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50 - 100 tabs open at one time!? Why would anyone need that many windows open? I'm not saying that these issues aren't prevalent--but I have to imagine that thi

by jsiarto 16y ago

50 - 100 tabs open at one time!? Why would anyone need that many windows open? I'm not saying that these issues aren't prevalent--but I have to imagine that this is an edge case. Just thinking about ever having more than 5 or 6 tabs open at any given time just makes my head hurt...

DisposaBoy 16y ago
Why would anyone need more than 640k?
- jsiarto 16y ago
  Ok... Not really the same argument--but I still hold that this is an edge case. I can't even wrap my head around the UI FUBAR of what a window with 100 tabs open looks like. Someone please explain to me how you work within that system?
  - DisposaBoy 16y ago
    Well I can't explain for anyone else and I'm sure I haven't reached such extremes but currently I personally have about 50+ tabs open in 7 browser windows (6 firefox and 1 chromium) spread accross 5 virtual desktops. I won't say what they are except they are clusters of tabs on research topics, things related to work I just did, procastination aids like HN. Some tabs haven't been touched in a couple days so it's not as bad as it seems. Some people bookmark-all-open-tabs and read later, I leave them open because otherwise things just get forgotten. Hope that helps. EDIT: I should maybe point out that I haven't any stability issues here though Firefox from time to time decides that it needs to become laggy(not Flash related).
  - chronomex 16y ago
    I have my tabs all down the left side of my window, so they stack nicely. I use a compact theme and a large monitor so I can get 30-50 tabs per window. And I have multiple browser windows (about three) open for different tasks. I've got one for general browsing, and one for each concurrent project.
adolph 16y ago
I'd bet there is kind of a snowball effect: Tick: a person will load links in background tabs while they are reading because the pages don't load faster than the person thinks/reads Tock: a person sees performance decrease and this reinforces the perception that loading in background tabs is a good idea
TNO 16y ago
http://vimeo.com/13560319 http://vimeo.com/13560319

by jsiarto 16y ago

DisposaBoy 16y ago

Why would anyone need more than 640k?

jsiarto 16y ago
Ok... Not really the same argument--but I still hold that this is an edge case. I can't even wrap my head around the UI FUBAR of what a window with 100 tabs open looks like. Someone please explain to me how you work within that system?
- DisposaBoy 16y ago
  Well I can't explain for anyone else and I'm sure I haven't reached such extremes but currently I personally have about 50+ tabs open in 7 browser windows (6 firefox and 1 chromium) spread accross 5 virtual desktops. I won't say what they are except they are clusters of tabs on research topics, things related to work I just did, procastination aids like HN. Some tabs haven't been touched in a couple days so it's not as bad as it seems. Some people bookmark-all-open-tabs and read later, I leave them open because otherwise things just get forgotten. Hope that helps. EDIT: I should maybe point out that I haven't any stability issues here though Firefox from time to time decides that it needs to become laggy(not Flash related).
- chronomex 16y ago
  I have my tabs all down the left side of my window, so they stack nicely. I use a compact theme and a large monitor so I can get 30-50 tabs per window. And I have multiple browser windows (about three) open for different tasks. I've got one for general browsing, and one for each concurrent project.

adolph 16y ago

I'd bet there is kind of a snowball effect: Tick: a person will load links in background tabs while they are reading because the pages don't load faster than the person thinks/reads Tock: a person sees performance decrease and this reinforces the perception that loading in background tabs is a good idea

TNO 16y ago

http://vimeo.com/13560319 http://vimeo.com/13560319