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There used to be a thread on this forum about how many tabs people had open. This came to mind when I saw the article. However, how is 7400 tabs even productive? As soon I can't read part of the tab to know what it is, I start closing them.
What in the world is this person doing/looking at on the internet? Over a two year span I doubt I even visit more than 74 different websites, let alone 7,470. It's basically equivalent to having 7,470 bookmarks saved, which is also nuts. Really, there's a big world out there that isn't digital or tech related.
I used to work with someone who would complain about having "too many tabs open in my head" when she got stressed out. The person in this article took that to a whole new level.
There used to be a thread on this forum about how many tabs people had open. This came to mind when I saw the article. However, how is 7400 tabs even productive? As soon I can't read part of the tab to know what it is, I start closing them.
Is the browser even responsive with that many tabs open?
The most I ever have opened is like 100 or so. But that's when I'm searching for something, or shopping, etc. I typically only leave like 10-20 tabs opened.
Is the browser even responsive with that many tabs open?
All the technical freaks probably has the same questions:
How could the system handle that much memory load?
How could browser handle the load?
The real question no one is asking: How the hell did the user even know or count how many tabs they had open?
Tabs couldn't look much different than a series of "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" at that point!
My guess is that just like you can have 1000's of bookmarks, 'open' tabs become like temporary bookmarks that have a web page in memory attached. If memory gets too low FF or the OS will store a tab's web page on the drive's virtual memory swap file. If you then run out of virtual memory it will drop the web page from memory even if tab still exists, and will then reload the tab's web page from the internet if you click on that tab. In this way FF doesn't slow down and crash.
This is why there is no limit to how many tab's you can open, they become temp bookmarks. You can really only have one tab open at any time. FF manages tab memory in the background making it seem they are all 'open' but not really.
All the technical freaks probably has the same questions:
How could the system handle that much memory load?
How could browser handle the load?
The real question no one is asking: How the hell did the user even know or count how many tabs they had open?
Tabs couldn't look much different than a series of "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" at that point!
Sounds like BS news to me...
When you "intentional" click close tab, but "actually" click close other tabs, you get the popup warning message that wants you to verify that you want to close all those tabs. This warning message tells you how many tabs are open.
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