Tabbed browsing

Has it improved your capabilities?

[smells so good]

I like tabbed browsing, make no mistake. I usually have several applications running on my desktop, so finding the browser is much easier. Nevertheless, I have issues.

For the most part I use Netscape, but the same problem shows in Firefox. Basically, if one of the open tabs is updating I'm stuck until it finishes. Rather than update as a background process the full weight of processing seems to go the updating tab, no matter if it is on top or underneath. In fact, just now while typing this post I was forced to wait while another tab refreshed.

I'm guessing this is a more of a problem with my PC processor than with the browser software, but I'm not sure. With any luck Santa will bring me a new processor and I can put this issue to rest. But I'm curious, does anyone else experience this, and do you find it just as aggravating?

FWIW, right now I have 5 tabs open. That's about normal, although during the busiest part of the day I can easily double that. Maybe I'm just an impatient wanna-be power user.

[IT Pro Web Team]

I *do* have latency issues with tabbed browsing. I'm running a machine (Tablet PC) that was purchased less than a year ago, so it's more than likely not a processing issue--I think more has to do with the browser itself. The best case I can present for that argument would be that between FireFox 1.5 and IE 7.0, FireFox works faster, but also has problems loading pages sometimes (times out). IE is slower, but will load the page (eventually). There's more than likely some browser bugs that software co's are still working out with this new function.

Beyond that, I'm not sure how long tabbed browsing will stick around. The concept is right (put more stuff in less space) but the implementation is, once again, a bit off. I wonder what next gen browsers will look like and how they will function, especially in light of the advent of Windows Vista as a next gen (and integrated) OS?

[rocknbil]

I don't experience that at ALL. I regularly right-click->open in new tab on 6 or 8 links one after the other and continue working while they load.

I do know that FF is a memory hog. I just checked, it's currently using 91,900 K! That's almost as much as my current Photoshop settings.

So I would say if Santa is asking you to be frugal, try more RAM first. I went from 500 MB to 1GB RAM on XPpro last summer, the difference was night and day. I would suggest 2 GB for anyone opening a lot of apps or doing any gaming.

[mack]

I like tabbed browsers because it allows you to have more than one start page. You may have several sites you need to check daily. If so then you can open all at the same time and toggle between them as required.

Makes it simple if you need to check affiliate stats, bank account etc.

I also like only having one instance of the browser on the task bar, I used to hate getting loads of Browser instances on my task bar.

Mack.

[sc112]

I've never experienced any latency. Currently I have 5 tabs open, but earlier in the day, I had over 10. Firefox is taking up 108MB!(out of 1GB)

[Leosghost]

run opera for speed with tabs ..I have 47 open right now and I use a doze 98II with a celeron 400 and only 256 RAM ( to connect to the net ..XP anything isnt allowed to connect ..and it ( XP pro ..4 more machines ..much better spec ..for 3D apps and image work and dev ..).. and my ubuntu machines 2 ..dont need to connect to the net ..well the linux ones sometimes do ..everything for XP exists as standalones that dont need to have XP running to get them ..

but 98II is easier to lock down than XP ..no virii no trojans no spyware ..no nasties ..and no AV installed either ..

last BSOD was 2 years ago now ..runs faster than XP does on most peoples machines that I see ..

and on Opera is lightening fast ..even with 8 year old spec ..

the only thing I have against Opera is the way it stores entire pages is not as friendly as FF or even IE ..

FF is reserved for dev ( it is such a ram hog that otherwise I start cussing it and the dog worries that it may be something she did ..although if you clear the download memory it does get faster ..still kludgy though ) ..and IE is just for seeing what hacks are needed today so the masses can see approximately what I made ..but IE isnt even allowed on this machine now ..My DSL ISP loaded it via their flash DSL installer ..and I took it right back off again ..:)