<story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I&apos;m afraid I disagree.  There&apos;s no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time.  Read what you need and close the tab when you&apos;re done.  Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to.  You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it.  Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something?  Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn&apos;t really matter when you&apos;re doing anything other than idle browsing.&lt;p&gt;This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours.  And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I&apos;m looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can&apos;t go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&amp;#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?&lt;p&gt;I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause.  The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don&apos;t lose them all.&lt;p&gt;The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it&apos;s not as bad as one might think).   The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>It&apos;s called context / state.&lt;p&gt;The more state I can leave up on my desktop, the better.&lt;p&gt;If there were better management within the browser -- non-visible tabs were eventually unloaded, with any page-state (forms data, etc.) saved -- then you wouldn&apos;t have the memory bloat problems that occur.&lt;p&gt;The thing is that it&apos;s a very large virtual workspace to spread things out over. So long as it&apos;s organized, it&apos;s really useful.&lt;p&gt;Look to movies especially of researchers in the 1970s or 1980s who&apos;d spread clippings and papers over all horizontal surfaces in an office, tape/pin them to a wall, etc.  You want to be able to scan quickly through the space at eye-speed, not have to dig into files / organizers / storage / regenerate the information every time you want to look at it.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s why you&apos;d rather have a large monitor -- you can strew windows over it and see more, rather than have to manage windows and go through them repeatedly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scalability</title><url>http://gregor-wagner.com/?p=79</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Flam</author><text>I&apos;m afraid I disagree.  There&apos;s no way you could multi-task all 30 open tabs at the same time.  Read what you need and close the tab when you&apos;re done.  Leave only the topmost page of the documentation open so you can find your way back down again if you need to.  You should be able to tell whether a page has value to you or not within the first 30 seconds of skimming through it.  Do you open every result on google for the first 3 pages of all your searches or something?  Baffling.</text></item><item><author>cbs</author><text>How you feel doesn&apos;t really matter when you&apos;re doing anything other than idle browsing.&lt;p&gt;This morning I had about 30 tabs open when I came into work, all documentation or reference of some sort that I will use in the next few hours.  And thats about the lowest I ever get, if I&apos;m looking up something new to me or complex it will easily shoot over 100.</text></item><item><author>Flam</author><text>W.T.F.
I can&apos;t go over 6 without feeling messy.</text></item><item><author>rmccue</author><text>&amp;#62; The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?&lt;p&gt;I have 60 tabs open now (in FF), and this is after closing most of them, on a 32-bit system with 4GB of RAM. I regularly hit over 200 tabs when browsing.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>Performance is the side-effect, not the cause.  The cause is the fact that chrome uses separate processes both for security, and so if one tab crashes, you don&apos;t lose them all.&lt;p&gt;The fact that it uses more memory is a design tradeoff (although with shared text pages it&apos;s not as bad as one might think).   The real question is whether you would ever have that many tabs open, and how much memory do you have on your desktop?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbs</author><text>You&apos;re right.  My workflow sucks and there is no way it could be the most efficient way for me to work.  All those tabs are useless.  Re-navigating to a document multiple times a day is easier than leaving it open scrolled to where I need it.&lt;p&gt;I guess I just suck at my job.</text></comment>