Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ...
by nice_byte on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @11:02PM
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> And what'll you do for a large task thats interrupted by a small task?
No, just open a new tab. I simply never have more than 2 tasks in-flight. I can't focus on more than two things at a time, and even then the second one has to be really quick (no more than 1 tab deep). And of course, once I'm done with something, it goes away.
> Either you have an amazing memory of arbitrary websites...or you dont have any memory of them (artificial or otherwise)
The latter. I don't commit things that can be searched to memory. For example, I don't go to Khronos website to search OpenGL APIs, I just google the function names. Same if I want to look for something in wikipedia. I also don't bother remembering website names. For example, if I know there's a particular article about shadow mapping I want to read, I can just google "article about shadowmapping by fabien" and the thing I'm looking for will be the top result.
> The natural thing to do is accumulate tabs until it becomes unsustainable, and then garbage collect
Sure. It's just that > 10 is already pushing it and > 20 tabs is completely unsustainable for me.
No, just open a new tab. I simply never have more than 2 tasks in-flight. I can't focus on more than two things at a time, and even then the second one has to be really quick (no more than 1 tab deep). And of course, once I'm done with something, it goes away.
> Either you have an amazing memory of arbitrary websites...or you dont have any memory of them (artificial or otherwise)
The latter. I don't commit things that can be searched to memory. For example, I don't go to Khronos website to search OpenGL APIs, I just google the function names. Same if I want to look for something in wikipedia. I also don't bother remembering website names. For example, if I know there's a particular article about shadow mapping I want to read, I can just google "article about shadowmapping by fabien" and the thing I'm looking for will be the top result.
> The natural thing to do is accumulate tabs until it becomes unsustainable, and then garbage collect
Sure. It's just that > 10 is already pushing it and > 20 tabs is completely unsustainable for me.