On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

On 2017-09-30 03:15 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>
> … in the past have had up to 18 windows
> open and from 3 to 50+ tabs on any one window.

Could one do useful work with that many pages open at once? Each
page/tab is effectively a little VM, so you've got hundreds of “users”
on your system. If just one of those tabs does an image carousel (like
many news or sales sites), it'll use most of a core to do so, even if
hidden.

My work flow goes something like this. Working on finding an option

that works better than virtualbox for me. Do a search - - - find an interesting

webpage. That page refers to something - - - lets say its containers. Then

I open another tab and start looking for containers in linux and some ways

of implementing and controlling. That can easily result in 5 tabs looking back

and forth for information. Then drilling down I'm looking at lxc/lxd for a

combination. There is the official pages but then I've often found it useful to

have have others have written on installation first and then use. Getting to

20 tabs on this particular example isn't hard at all. After I get something

installed, and that rarely seems straight forward and so the process takes

looking up the 4 or 5 issues that need to be resolved (easily another 3 or

4 tabs if not more) I tend to leave the tabs available. Rereading information

sites is a way of remembering and reinforcing. Then there are all the other

projects (its rare when I've only got 5 or 6 on the go and sometimes its a lot

more). I tried using a different window for every meta topic (and Min works

quite well here) but that didn't help. So I try hard to control the tab proliferation

but I don't seem to be winning often - -- grin!

I thought I had problems with one tab out of 10 or so in Firefox
crashing and turning this i7 into a mini space heater, but clearly I
ain't seen nothing yet …

I do have 6 physical (meaning 12 accessible however that works) cores

available so - - pedal to the metal!!

For me computers are tools. Software is like functions. When tools don't work,

for me, either I need a better tool or I need to build a tool. As I'm a total noob

to programming, and understand that a better browser is quite likely something

that I'm not really equipped to create by myself, I choose to challenge the

incumbents by pointing out what's not working. Except in this case the incumbents

don't really ever seem to connect with anyone not on the project or at very least

they sure don't seem to be listening (I think the second is an even more glaring

fault than the first) so when I read of a very senior member of one of those

problem tool committees is going to appear out of their gopher hole - - - -well

I thought it would be worth a question (or three!).

Sorry for throwing the cat into the bathwater!!

Dee