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According to http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844, you "can open as many windows as you want from a single program", which I as

According to http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=844, you "can open as many windows as you want from a single program", which I assume means sub-processes are not counted. Also, IE8 creates separate processes for each tab, just like Chrome. Obviously Microsoft can set whatever double standards they like, but excluding other browsers would pretty much guarantee the Justice Department re-entering the mix.

snprbob86 17y ago
IE8 actually creates a pool of subprocesses which may or may not be used on per tab basis. "It turns out that the vast majority of all IE sessions contain three or fewer tabs. Accordingly, in Beta 2 we try to give users three efficient tab processes. This is contingent on the user’s computer capabilities, but the more capable a computer is, the more processes we will use, up to a point. Adding more processes gives users much better isolation in the event of a failure. If each tab is in its own process, websites are completely isolated from each other." Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/28/ie8-and-reliability.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/28/ie8-and-reliabil...
- ewjordan 17y ago
  It turns out that the vast majority of all IE sessions contain three or fewer tabs. That's only because tab management sucks when you put the tabs along the top of the screen, and the lack of organization means people feel obligated to close things out or re-use them rather than popping new tabs. Since I started using Tree Style Tabs in FF, I'm averaging somewhere around 50 tabs up at a time (of course, I don't even notice this until FF tells me the number as I close out, since they're all collapsed and well organized).
  - raquo 17y ago
    Majority of IE users are 'normal people', they just don't need 50 tabs for their tasks, they don't live in the internets
    - graemep 17y ago
      It is not just geeks who need to have a lot of abs open in their browser. There are a lot of jobs that involve gathering lots of information, and a lot of that (intranet as well as internet) is accessed through browsers there days. Add to that personal and work usage, amusement etc.
  - nazgulnarsil 17y ago
    thanks, tree style tabs is clearly the way the internet is supposed to be browsed (non linearity is the original innovation of hypertext)

snprbob86 17y ago

IE8 actually creates a pool of subprocesses which may or may not be used on per tab basis. "It turns out that the vast majority of all IE sessions contain three or fewer tabs. Accordingly, in Beta 2 we try to give users three efficient tab processes. This is contingent on the user’s computer capabilities, but the more capable a computer is, the more processes we will use, up to a point. Adding more processes gives users much better isolation in the event of a failure. If each tab is in its own process, websites are completely isolated from each other." Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/28/ie8-and-reliability.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/28/ie8-and-reliabil...

ewjordan 17y ago
It turns out that the vast majority of all IE sessions contain three or fewer tabs. That's only because tab management sucks when you put the tabs along the top of the screen, and the lack of organization means people feel obligated to close things out or re-use them rather than popping new tabs. Since I started using Tree Style Tabs in FF, I'm averaging somewhere around 50 tabs up at a time (of course, I don't even notice this until FF tells me the number as I close out, since they're all collapsed and well organized).
- raquo 17y ago
  Majority of IE users are 'normal people', they just don't need 50 tabs for their tasks, they don't live in the internets
  - graemep 17y ago
    It is not just geeks who need to have a lot of abs open in their browser. There are a lot of jobs that involve gathering lots of information, and a lot of that (intranet as well as internet) is accessed through browsers there days. Add to that personal and work usage, amusement etc.
- nazgulnarsil 17y ago
  thanks, tree style tabs is clearly the way the internet is supposed to be browsed (non linearity is the original innovation of hypertext)