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0 pointsblasdel15y ago0 comments

Yes there is. It's called Google Chrome. I presently have 164 tabs open in it across 6 windows. It works just fine.

I am regularly amused by the stream of inane blog posts from "UX Professionals" declaring bankruptcy because oh god they have 22 tabs open — and then they go on to propose some ridiculous unbuilt UI that's even less capable, but makes them feel designery.

Chrome does start to bog down eventually, and I can respond to that by killing off worker processes, which leaves the swath of tabs it was responsible for dead, but still in place with their URL and I can just hit refresh. With Firefox the whole browser will repeatedly lock up for seconds at a time at a much lower usage threshold and eventually crash completely, taking 5 minutes out of my day. Before I switched to Chrome, I would have Firefox would crash at least 10 times per week. That and their regular releases baking AwesomeBullshit into Firefox instead of releasing extensions was more than enough to compel me to ditch it.

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trafficlight15y ago

I still don't understand why you could possibly need 164 different web pages open at the same time. What kinds of things are you doing that simple bookmarks can't solve?

blasdelOP15y ago

They form stacks of things that haven't been finished with yet. If I bookmark something in that state, it just falls off the end of my brain. In a tab it remains in my periphery.

I shall attempt to document what I am presently filling all those tabs with:

  * Personal Gmail and Google Reader, along with a dozen or so links opened from them
  * Several work-related OWA mailboxes and Google Apps mail and docs accounts
  * 10 Hacker News discussions, including the one I'm making this comment in.
    Normally there would be two for this discussion as I open the 'reply' link
    in a new tab to not lose my place, but this tab was from a Notifo growl
  * A couple dozen tabs are for music, TV, games, and films to investigate/pirate
  * A dozen profiles of people to get in contact with on social networking sites
  * Another dozen active threads on several phpBB forums I am a member of
  * Several dozen tabs of product pages from manufacturers, alibaba, and ecommerce
    sites for several physical projects I'm working on.
  * A dozen tabs of research for software projects I'm working on

Depending on what I'm doing at any one time, any one of the things counted in dozens could dominate. If you'd caught me during a RSS binge, there'd also ba a whole bunch of extra small windows each containing a single flash video embed, generated by the "Popout" functionality in Google Reader.

Of the tabs presently open, about half are new in the last 24 hours. Chrome's chrome://history/ page only lets me page back through 450 items chronologically, which is about a third of my average daily usage.

I've tried a number of tools to collect links in — bookmarks, social bookmarks, Google Docs, Google Wave, etc., but I always end up falling back to tabs because I'm already using them anyway! I'm currently giving the Chrome/GDocs bookmark syncing a shot for things that are 'out of mind'.

aboodman15y ago

Do you only have one computer? Is it a notebook or desktop? It's hard for me to relate to these kind of use cases, because I use many computers, several of which are notebooks. I could never use a workflow like you because I'd always be losing all that state.

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DiabloD315y ago

Thats similar to how I do it. I have a virtual desktop for every task (with desktop 1 being my things without tasks/screwing around group), with at least one Firefox window open in every desktop....

Then, I have a Firefox window open for every subtask[1], which for example, could be a window full of documentation tabs, a window full of more documentation tabs for a different thing, and then a window full of even more documentation tabs for a third thing, all next to Eclipse, with a few vims open too for stuff I dont want open in Eclipse.

[1] I've actually started consolidating sub-task windows into tab groups inside Panorama/Eyecandy so its just one window per task. Control-space to bring up the local tab groups is very nifty.

DannoHung15y ago

I can believe you'd want 100+ tabs open, but I can't believe that flash wouldn't have forced a crash with even a dozen long running instances, unless you have the build with the new integrated flash plugin.

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pygy_15y ago

It's very common when doing bibliographic work for research.

epochwolf15y ago

TV Tropes. (If you don't know what it is, it's a massively crossed linked wiki. Don't go looking for it, you'll lose many hours of your life.)

DiabloD315y ago

It could be worse, you could have told them about [REDACTED].

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0 pointsblasdel15y ago0 comments

Yes there is. It's called Google Chrome. I presently have 164 tabs open in it across 6 windows. It works just fine.

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trafficlight15y ago

I still don't understand why you could possibly need 164 different web pages open at the same time. What kinds of things are you doing that simple bookmarks can't solve?

blasdelOP15y ago

They form stacks of things that haven't been finished with yet. If I bookmark something in that state, it just falls off the end of my brain. In a tab it remains in my periphery.

I shall attempt to document what I am presently filling all those tabs with:

  * Personal Gmail and Google Reader, along with a dozen or so links opened from them
  * Several work-related OWA mailboxes and Google Apps mail and docs accounts
  * 10 Hacker News discussions, including the one I'm making this comment in.
    Normally there would be two for this discussion as I open the 'reply' link
    in a new tab to not lose my place, but this tab was from a Notifo growl
  * A couple dozen tabs are for music, TV, games, and films to investigate/pirate
  * A dozen profiles of people to get in contact with on social networking sites
  * Another dozen active threads on several phpBB forums I am a member of
  * Several dozen tabs of product pages from manufacturers, alibaba, and ecommerce
    sites for several physical projects I'm working on.
  * A dozen tabs of research for software projects I'm working on

aboodman15y ago

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DiabloD315y ago

Thats similar to how I do it. I have a virtual desktop for every task (with desktop 1 being my things without tasks/screwing around group), with at least one Firefox window open in every desktop....

[1] I've actually started consolidating sub-task windows into tab groups inside Panorama/Eyecandy so its just one window per task. Control-space to bring up the local tab groups is very nifty.

DannoHung15y ago

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pygy_15y ago

It's very common when doing bibliographic work for research.

epochwolf15y ago

TV Tropes. (If you don't know what it is, it's a massively crossed linked wiki. Don't go looking for it, you'll lose many hours of your life.)

DiabloD315y ago

It could be worse, you could have told them about [REDACTED].

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse