I have been on the internet for over 10 years now. And I like to think I am fairly internet and computer savvy. But one thing I have always wondered.
If you need to visit a lot of sites, is it better to do it all in one take? Or should you open a new browser window, for each site (or perhaps after you’ve visited a couple)? You get the picture.
In terms of your personal workflow; whatever works best for you.
In terms of bandwidth; all that content has to come through the pipe at some point - you might not want to set loads of different pages loading if you find that interferes with the one you’re trying to look at first (for example: if you’re trying to watch a streaming video while 100 other pages are stacking up in other tabs/windows)
In terms of system performance; on machine of decent, modern spec, you’re only using a fraction of the resources anyway; it makes little difference how you browse.
Yep, tabs are the way to go. I read about 10 news sites every day and have them set up in my bookmarks allowing me to open all 10 sites at once. That way, they are ready to read as I go from tab to tab.
I have about 150 - 200 tabs open at any time, plus those open for new stuff: as Firefox remembers them all with session manager, they open quite quickly if I hit reload. Providing one unticks Don’t load tabs until selected, which is as annoying as Lazy Load on a website.
I’ve been known to have tabs open for weeks at work. My home computer got rebooted the other day for the first time in 20 days, even then it started up with all the tabs that were open when I closed the browser.
I mean, I would never tell any who likes tabs that they’re wrong and need to knock it off, but I hate, hate, hate tabs with the fire of a thousand suns.
I use windows and tabs. I might have a window for fun time-wasting crap, a window for scholarly research (now that I’m in grad school; when I worked in IT it would be a window for internal IT sites and pages), maybe a window for chores or tasks to get done (like online banking, etc.). Each window will have a bunch of tabs open at any given time.
How can you even see what the 150-200 tabs are for? I have nine open at the moment, but often have more but there’s no way I’d be able to see what page 150 separate tabs might take me to.
I don’t like tabs. I open lots of windows, and I never have a window fill the whole screen. I like to see my current screensaver (currently it’s a slideshow of works by Kandinsky) peeking around the edges.
I don’t follow your logic here. Using tabs doesn’t mean you need to have your window maximized. I just use a normal sized window with several tabs in it.