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I have a tab problem.
Oct. 8th, 2009 11:10 pmBack when Internet Explorer was my primary browser, I would open new window after new window until my computer was groaning under the strain. I could get maybe ten open before the slowdown became unbearable. And eventually I'd have to restart and lose them all, and sanity would return to the land of Windows.
I tried Opera and fell in love with tabs and mouse gestures, but I couldn't make the switch. I think it was that in Windows Me the IME wouldn't work with non-Microsoft programs, and I didn't want to open a different browser every time I needed to type in Japanese.
Then I moved up to Windows XP and Firefox. And from day one I've had a tab problem. There's an email tab and an LJ tab and a Google Reader tab, a fic I want to read, something cool I want to post about or share with someone, something I want to buy, a new site or software I want to try out, and on and on and on. At the end of the day I haven't dealt with all those things, so the next day I'll restore my session--I can't live without Tab Mix Plus--but instead of going through my backlog, I open a whole bunch of new tabs. So each day my tabs increase in number. When I get up around 100 I'll start pruning. By then I'll have lost interest in some of the old tabs, but I never get much below 100 tabs. Eventually something will happen and I won't be able to restore the session* and then the whole process starts over again.
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I tried Opera and fell in love with tabs and mouse gestures, but I couldn't make the switch. I think it was that in Windows Me the IME wouldn't work with non-Microsoft programs, and I didn't want to open a different browser every time I needed to type in Japanese.
Then I moved up to Windows XP and Firefox. And from day one I've had a tab problem. There's an email tab and an LJ tab and a Google Reader tab, a fic I want to read, something cool I want to post about or share with someone, something I want to buy, a new site or software I want to try out, and on and on and on. At the end of the day I haven't dealt with all those things, so the next day I'll restore my session--I can't live without Tab Mix Plus--but instead of going through my backlog, I open a whole bunch of new tabs. So each day my tabs increase in number. When I get up around 100 I'll start pruning. By then I'll have lost interest in some of the old tabs, but I never get much below 100 tabs. Eventually something will happen and I won't be able to restore the session* and then the whole process starts over again.
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