<story><title>Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-huge-numbers-of-tabs-leaves-chrome-in-the-dust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>This is very neat from a technological point of view, but: who are these people who have hundreds and thousands of tabs open, and how can we get them the help they need?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>I have the opposing opinion&lt;p&gt;Who are these people with a shockingly low number of tabs, and how do we get them the help they need?&lt;p&gt;Those I usually see with few tabs are either those who only browse the web for extremely simple things (ie facebook, netflix and google for very simple questions), or those who only just maintain like a single docs page at any given moment.&lt;p&gt;The hell kind of absurd usage pattern is that? Do you keep one book on your shelf too? Do you just not have any interests? Nothing but one thing at a time? I keep around ~300 tabs and a heavily organized bookmarks storage with some 400 links; tabs are ram and bookmarks are disk.&lt;p&gt;How else would you naturally organize your web-information? I can only imagine you have very little information to organize...</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust</title><url>http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-huge-numbers-of-tabs-leaves-chrome-in-the-dust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>This is very neat from a technological point of view, but: who are these people who have hundreds and thousands of tabs open, and how can we get them the help they need?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Macha</author><text>Yo.&lt;p&gt;Reasons I have a lot of tabs open:&lt;p&gt;1. Google searching problem. The first result is rarely a complete solution to a problem if I&amp;#x27;ve resorted to Google. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s a partial solution, maybe it&amp;#x27;s no good at all. Usually I&amp;#x27;ll open anything looking relevant from the first page, skim through them, if they don&amp;#x27;t have a quick answer I&amp;#x27;ll check the next. Then I&amp;#x27;ll eliminate any that are totally not relevant. If any have partial answers, I&amp;#x27;ll keep them around while searching related search terms. See also searching our jira instance for related issues when I know this is very similar to something that&amp;#x27;s came up before.&lt;p&gt;2. Programming docs have this annoying habit of sticking one class per page, meaning I usually have to have multiple pages open to understand some area of a library if I&amp;#x27;m unfamiliar with it.&lt;p&gt;3. Reddit&amp;#x2F;HN threads often send me on tangents down links while I keep the parent threads open.&lt;p&gt;4. Sometimes I&amp;#x27;ll go on an aside and do something else while keeping my previous context open for when I return. Yes, I could bookmark them, but bookmarks are a lot more awkward to load back and also mentally feel like they&amp;#x27;re for something a lot more permanent than &amp;quot;I might need in 3-4 hours but won&amp;#x27;t need it tomorrow&amp;quot;. Plus when it&amp;#x27;s not costing me much to not have to put up with the reload time...&lt;p&gt;5. Sometimes I open new windows to view multiple pieces of content at once. Sometimes I end up following links in these new windows.&lt;p&gt;6. Sometimes I open new windows to create a seperate context for a new piece of research when the previous one might be still relevant.&lt;p&gt;I have tried pinboard, pocket when it was readitlater, browser bookmarks, etc. None of them have really solved this use case and I tend to forget about using them after a while.&lt;p&gt;I tend to idle in the 5-20 range, go up to the 50s when researching. Hitting 100+ happens many days, and my record is closing out a browser with 354 open tabs.</text></comment>