Re:Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
by TheAceOfHearts on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:54AM
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It might depend on your system resources, but I have +300 tabs open right now and I don't experience any problems. The only thing that's a bit slow is if I restart the browser, it takes a bit long to start up.
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Re:Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
by pygy_ on Sunday September 09, 2018 @03:42AM
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Firefox for Mac has animation-related speed issues that don't occur in Windows, that may explain the discrepancy between your experience and the GP's.
Re:Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
by yourpalkeith on Sunday September 09, 2018 @09:10AM
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Why would you want so many tabs open in the first place? Is this really a common way to use a browser?
Re:Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
by reitanqild on Sunday September 09, 2018 @04:39PM
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> Why would you want so many tabs open in the first place?
Some reasons:
- Ctrl-clicking to open tabs since I can then load them in the background (because I'm impatient, and because I don't want to get distracted by clicking into all the references in the main tab while reading.
- using tab tree extension I can then easily see what path lead to some interesting page I found
- by default, if you type ab address you already have open in another tab, Firefox will jump to that tab.
> Is this really a common way to use a browser?
Yep. Bot extremely common but I do it and a number of other HN-ers as well. Mozilla seems to be aware of it and seems to have it in their performance tests or something.