Phillip Jones wrote:
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:On 11/27/2010 8:52 PM, Phillip Jones wrote:Ant wrote:I just accidently pressed ctrl-T and got a tab in it. Am I the last user to know this? Did SM1 and Mozilla have this too? :(No SM couldn't thank goodness.I don't even use tabs in browser for SeaMonkey or in FF. The only thing its good for is wasting memory as each tabbed item takes up memory.MUCH Less memory than a new window though, fwiw.But your only viewing each window one at a time. and it replaces in memory the previous window's contents. Its like a slide show. you completely replace the content in one window with the content in another window. In tabs your saving the content as a separate instance. when you have more than two tabs in memory that's a big drain on the RAM. Then the hard drive comes into play and drags everything down waiting for the swaps. (unless you have one of those solid state devices). Even that drags the SSD down eventually causing its demise at shorter interval.
The main thing I use tabs for is doing comparisons - particularly when shopping or quoting/citing something. Very, very handy to be able to flip back and fourth with a direct click.
I generally don't leave more than one tab open during a session, but I do use them during just about every session. Mainly with the Browser, not so much with Mail/News...but that habit may change.
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- Rufus
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