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Re: [PLUG] Firefox crashes with lots of tabs open
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Are you sure that's not recycling with the good intentions of taking it out?
----- Original Message ----
> From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>
> To: bergman@merctech.com; Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 11:34:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Firefox crashes with lots of tabs open
>
> On Tuesday 03 March 2009 05:05:07 pm bergman@merctech.com wrote:
> > => >> That is not acceptable. I regularly have 300-500 tabs open,
> >
> > I'm not quite that bad...usually I'm running at about 125~200 tabs, divided
> > in two windows (Work and !Work).
> >
> > Of course, as I write this, I'm restarting firefox, since it just crashed.
> > :(
> >
> > => >
> > => > WOW. Really. May I ask .. why? I've never heard of anyone using so
> > => > many tabs. Are you running monitoring sites in each tab, keeping an
> > => > eye on many different remote systems?
> > =>
> > => Everything that I ever want to read gets a new tab opened, and it sits
> > => there until I have time to actually read it, and it sits there longer
> >
> > Ha! I do the same thing.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > => if I need to act on it. Browser tabs, like EMACS buffers, are my
> > => "working memory".
>
> I sort of do this, but rarely get beyond a dozen tabs. If I don't get to it
> today, there is going to be even more tomorrow, and I won't have more time
> tomorrow. By the next day there will be even more. I find that I can't get to
> read /everything/ I want. If I don't get to stuff in a few days, the tabs get
> closed, and I move on.
>
> Nothing personal, but 300-500 tabs seems like the electronic equivalent of
> those recluse homes with newspapers and magazines piled six feet high
> everywhere with just a maze to navigate to the refrigerator and the bathroom.
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