On Thursday, 24.03.2016 at 08:45 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-03-24 at 06:21, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 23.03.2016 at 13:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> [...] this is because there are over 4,000 open tabs, all ordinary > >> Web pages [...] > > > > Wow. Really 4000? > > Yes - and that's after several months of working diligently to reduce > the count; the peak was, IIRC, 5,190. > > > I'm actually stunned that's manageable: how on earth do you *find* > > an existing tab in that lot?! > > By separating it out into (at current count) seven different windows, > grouped roughly by subject category, and - within each window - by > working primarily at the head and tail of the queue, i.e., the far > left and far right end of the tab list. > > I actually only have two windows whose tab count is high enough to > overflow the window width (with minimum tab width set just barely more > than wide enough for a favicon, via Classic Theme Restorer, and with > maximized windows on a 2560x1600 monitor), and those two are the ones > which I keep most stringently to their designated subject matter. > > It's still ridiculous, and I'm working on reducing the backlogs here, > but it will take me quite some time to get things down to levels which > are reasonable even by my standards. (In no small part because - with > CTR to revert most of Australis, Session Manager for the UI it > provides, and my currently-semi-private BarTab fork for the essential > tab-unloading UI - having so many tabs means it takes an hour and a > half, if not more, to shut down and restart the browser.)
LOL! I thought 4000 tabs was ridiculous, but 90 minutes to restart the browser ... "Good luck with that", as they say ;-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart, [email protected] Senior IT & Information Security Manager Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford E7D2 DB06 445D 1A23 A47A E7E2 3467 0F38 356E 6ED2
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