Comments on: “Is the answer ‘no’ because you have 50 gobzillion tabs open?”

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:28:03 +0000

I've had the 20+ tabs open before but never for any serious length of time. Either it slows the computer down or I'm too impatient when that many tabs are open so I start clicking away in agitation. Next thing you know...its a tab dance as things open and close in rapid succession :P

Glad to hear that you are feeling better.

By: John

John — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:16:10 +0000

I’m embarrassed to admit it…I use firefox and didn’t realize what I could do with tabs. Not sure I’ll ever get that many open at once, but I’ll let you know.

By: jerm

jerm — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:49:22 +0000

Wikipedia is hell on tabs in firefox. I cant read an article without opening one or two or twelve other articles in other tabs. Once I finish the one I’m on I can move over to the next tab, then the vicious cycle continues!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:59:05 +0000

If I’m browsing forums I’ll open between 15-40 tabs at once, but at least Camino is nice enough to put anything over 10 or so into a sidebar like Safari does instead of that abomination that firefox does. Why don’t you just bookmark all your tabs into one bookmark so you can re-open them the next time you launch firefox. That’s what I do if I have things I want to read, but can’t read at the time due to restarts. Congratulations on getting over your cold too. Mine is almost gone and I can finally listen to music properly and eat food WITH TASTE again. Wonderful!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:59:48 +0000

I didn’t know the tabs on Firefox did second rows, let alone third ones. But I ‘m glad to hear you have sick conquered

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:04:06 +0000

I’d love to see a comment from someone. ANYONE who has this many tabs running at the same time.

By: elaine

elaine — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:15:30 +0000

One: Go to icq.com, log in, and tell it to never, ever publicize your away status on the web. This hideous feature is on by default, I think this is the source of a LOT of ICQ spam. Two: There are Firefox extensions that will recreate your tabs when you come back from restarting it. Session Saver is one, and it works great after intentional restarts, but it sucks after a crash. Crash Recovery works better for me. I restart Firefox all the time, because it eats a ton of memory. It also crashes a fair bit for me, maybe twice a week. I’m a little annoyed that you don’t mention having such problems. I’m not sure, unfortunately, whether Crash Recovery works to restore tabs after a legitimate intentional restart. But you could force-quit Firefox instead of quitting, and Crash Recovery would pop up and restore your tabs (yes, all of them).