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Tabs! Tabs! Everywhere!
I kind of stopped reading my LJ about halfway through the month of December. I've gone back as far as my flist will let me and am making my way forward. So if you get a comment from me for a post from 2 weeks ago, that's why.
Since I'm catching up, I only just saw this post by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seperis on how many tabs people generally have open at a time. I was kind of surprised to see "Why In the Name of God: 51 - 99" and "Screenshots or It Didn't Happen: 100+ " because for me, 51-99 means "Yay! I've gotten rid of a ton of tabs!" My average amount of tabs is somewhere around 120-180 tabs open (generally between 2, sometimes 3 windows). It always takes me like 2 minutes to scroll through all the tabs I have open.
...Is that not normal? Because I totally thought it was. Hell, even at work, where I try my best to not have very many tabs open, I have 35 open. So, I'd like to do my own poll to see how my flist does:
[Poll #1322798]
It's funny, when I first got into fandom (when I was still using IE) I never used to have more than, oh, say 5 windows open (although, I think it was more like 2). I used to make fun ofraxhel for having 20 windows open all the time. Then when we moved to China, we were sharing an internet connection between the two of us, so I'd go on stints and open a ton of windows so I'd always have fic available. I was still using IE at the time, and would get like 50 window open. I *hated* Windows automatic updates, because they'd shut my computer down while I was sleeping (I turn my computer off maybe a dozen times a year the rest of the time it just goes into hibernation) and I'd lose all my windows. Then I found Firefox.
I think before too, I wasn't getting as much fic off of LJ, I'd just go searching for fic off archives, rec lists or yes, sometimes LJ whenever I wanted to read. I'd only ever pull up one fic at a time. Now though, there's so much fic on my flist that I am constantly opening new tabs. There's more fic than I could ever possibly read out there. In fact, I started a spreadsheet with links to all the fics I found interesting enough to read. And that's not even mentioning all the meta and rec lists and vidding links I pull up as well. I can't imagine going back to just having a few windows open at a time.
Of course, all this does explain why Firefox alone uses around 400MBs of my memory on a good day.
Since I'm catching up, I only just saw this post by
seperis on how many tabs people generally have open at a time. I was kind of surprised to see "Why In the Name of God: 51 - 99" and "Screenshots or It Didn't Happen: 100+ " because for me, 51-99 means "Yay! I've gotten rid of a ton of tabs!" My average amount of tabs is somewhere around 120-180 tabs open (generally between 2, sometimes 3 windows). It always takes me like 2 minutes to scroll through all the tabs I have open. ...Is that not normal? Because I totally thought it was. Hell, even at work, where I try my best to not have very many tabs open, I have 35 open. So, I'd like to do my own poll to see how my flist does:
[Poll #1322798]
It's funny, when I first got into fandom (when I was still using IE) I never used to have more than, oh, say 5 windows open (although, I think it was more like 2). I used to make fun of
raxhel for having 20 windows open all the time. Then when we moved to China, we were sharing an internet connection between the two of us, so I'd go on stints and open a ton of windows so I'd always have fic available. I was still using IE at the time, and would get like 50 window open. I *hated* Windows automatic updates, because they'd shut my computer down while I was sleeping (I turn my computer off maybe a dozen times a year the rest of the time it just goes into hibernation) and I'd lose all my windows. Then I found Firefox. I think before too, I wasn't getting as much fic off of LJ, I'd just go searching for fic off archives, rec lists or yes, sometimes LJ whenever I wanted to read. I'd only ever pull up one fic at a time. Now though, there's so much fic on my flist that I am constantly opening new tabs. There's more fic than I could ever possibly read out there. In fact, I started a spreadsheet with links to all the fics I found interesting enough to read. And that's not even mentioning all the meta and rec lists and vidding links I pull up as well. I can't imagine going back to just having a few windows open at a time.
Of course, all this does explain why Firefox alone uses around 400MBs of my memory on a good day.
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Chrome definitely isn't Firefox, but given time it could be something similar, it's just not there yet. I think the only people they're going to switch over are people currently using IE.
A couple additional comments to my post linked above.
-I really like that you can do Google searches from the address bar without having to first go to the Google homepage. I know it doesn't take much extra time to skip over to Google, but I'm lazy like that. I find myself constantly making mistakes when I'm at home and using Firefox :P
-I only recently discovered this, but you can do a Google search on the links in your history, that kicks some serious ass. I hate trying to find things in my history since I always have so many tabs :)
-Tabs on Chrome don't scroll, they just get smaller and smaller. So if you have 50 tabs open the tabs on the bar become so small you can't know what you're clicking on as you change tabs. I'll sometimes accidentally close tabs instead of switching tabs because the X button is pretty much all that's showing.
I think those are the main points. Like I said, it could be a kick ass browser in the future if they get an add on community like Firefox has, but right now I still find FF is better.
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Boo! But yeah, it looked kinda spiffy from the previews.
re: additional comments:
- you can totally do google searches in the firefox address bar! I do it constantly.
- FF does have history search too, but maybe it's not as good as google searches.
- I'll sometimes accidentally close tabs instead of switching tabs because the X button is pretty much all that's showing.
Hmmm... But on the other hand: I like seeing how many tabs I have open. (I also heart my 'tabs counter' FF add-on.)
I'm going to read that IJ post now. Thanks!!
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Yeah, but Firefox will see if there's a webpage fitting that description first, so I sometimes end up at really random websites. I shouldn't really complain, I have a Google search box right beside my address bar.
FF does have history search too, but maybe it's not as good as google searches.
Hmm, I guess I never noticed that. I see it now though, I'll have to try that next time.
Sorry about the double post, I hit post prematurely.
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That's true. But most of the time I'm curious enough to see where a search will take me, even if it's really not what I was looking for. :D