Why?
I open up a lot of tabs while researching things, and once I have found my solution, I can either review the rest of the tabs or close the window.
So what is the human problem with having many tabs exactly?
I open up a lot of tabs while researching things, and once I have found my solution, I can either review the rest of the tabs or close the window.
So what is the human problem with having many tabs exactly?
A few months later problems began with beta version. Things got nasty when they tried the multiprocess architecture (which luckily has disappeared for good). Now (v 47) they've found a sweet spot.
I have also slightly modified my usage patterns to mitigate the problem:
* I would open one "main page" (HN, for example) and keep that open, refreshing and loading tabs in that window related to news, discussions, posts, etc. I'd never close this tab/window. -> (what I suspect) this would cause FF to keep hundreds (thousands?) of URLs and state in memory to respond to the Shift+T (reopen tab) command.
* I now close the "main window" more often, and thus keep this behaviour at bay. This alone must be the one thing that impacted the browsers stability.
* I try to keep less than 6 windows open at the same time (one with my email accounts, facebook main page, etc, another one for reddit/HN, and then specific windows for different topics).
I haven't had to modify my habits any further fortunately. But I did use to have 20+ windows with ~20 tabs each in average.
Frankly, Chrome sucks with a lot of tabs and sucks at conserving power, on a laptop it loses out on the two things that actually matter to me.
They're basically stacks of mini bookmarks in my view.
Bookmarks are long-term memory, tabs are short-term memory.
Seriously, I'm like a tab addict. I need help.