LongLiveZed

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   by LongLiveZed 16y ago

   I thing chaosmachine was right when he said it is partly because of increasingly dynamic web content. When pages were (mostly) static you could have 100 tabs on a slow machine and it wouldn't matter because they were mostly in the swap file
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   by LongLiveZed 16y ago

   Journalistic research (or any kind of web based research). Sure there are better ways to do it, but for less tech savy users a combination of browser windows and tabs are a good way to keep track of "thought branches". I do it sometimes, I
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   by LongLiveZed 16y ago

   Also because the major browsers have stepped up their rate of innovation. So they now either have: a) Shorter release cycles and test phases b) More changes made in a release cycle without a corresponding increase in the number of testers.