When you have a page displayed on one tab, and you open a new blank tab (Ctrl-T) and type a URL, what does the new page’s web log record as the referring URL? Blank or the URL of the page open in the first tab?
Does opening a tab use significantly less resources than another instance of the browser?
I have no way to test this right now, and I’m going through the FAQs, but I’m hoping someone has a quick answer.
-mdf
With any browser, opening a new window should not start another instance of that program. It should just take some more resources because there are now two windows.
By the way, have you seen Mozilla Firebird 0.6? I’ve been an Opera user for about three years, and the Firebird product has won me over.
From what I can tell from webalizer, it shows up as a direct connection, not a referral. I suppose I could put a script together to find out…
Let’s see how this works…
http://neussubjex.net/misc/refer.php
It just echoes the referer. Clicking should give the URL of this thread… entering it directly should give a blank page.
Nice link. I just tried it in Mozilla and it was blank, just like if you type it in in a new window. I believe that’s the only way that makes sense. What if you have 10 tabs open and type a URL into a new one?
Now, I have it set to open a new tab with middle-button click, and that shows the URL of this thread, just like you’d expect. So it seems tabs behave just like individual windows. I don’t know which takes fewer resources, though.