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Wait... you mention Chrome... and two hundred tabs open. Given that Chrome (very intentionally) becomes unusable before you get to 15 tabs even on gigantic wid
by otakucode 14y ago
Wait... you mention Chrome... and two hundred tabs open. Given that Chrome (very intentionally) becomes unusable before you get to 15 tabs even on gigantic widescreen monitors, how does Chrome manage to remain in your stable of browsers? I'm in the many-tabs crowd, but not so much to replace bookmarks. Bookmarks to me are 'this is a resource I will probably need later... likely much later'. Open tabs are 'I want to read this soon', and soon might be weeks later (though I usually get time to read on the weekends).
I gave up on Chrome when they took their perfectly usable vertical tabs implementation (which was an experimental feature you had to enable manually through the about:config page at the time) and just tore it out one day for no reason better than 'eh, we dont think that was a good design'. There weren't any problems with it. It wasn't holding back the development of anything else. Just some random dude at Google got a bug up his ass and decided to destroy Chromes usability for a few thousand users. And, of course, thanks to the whole invisible upgrade 'feature', the application just became unusable overnight with no mention.
Personally, I want the solution I've wanted for a very long time - tabs that remain open. Forever. At least, that is how it should LOOK, with the intelligent swapping and like going on in the background. When Firefox came out with the fullscreen tab manager with tab groups and everything I was so psyched.... and then I found out that Firefox actually keeps ALL of those tabs in memory. And you can't close a group and come back to it later. Useless.
- denkr 14y agoDo you know about the 'load tabs on demand' feature shipped in firefox 13? I usually leave tabs to read later open and restart my browser each morning. This way only tabs I visit that day will be in memory.
- idle_processor 14y agoMultiple windows with <= 14 tabs/window. I don't push 200, but 80 isn't rare for me (going by TooManyTabs extension count). IME, Firefox slows down much faster than Chrome when browsing this way (on Win7-64 w/ 4-8GB of RAM).