Comment by jauntywundrkind
2 years ago
In spite of your conntrarian phrasing you've kind of only sold me on tabs being a more advanced hypermedia bookmark than the simple bookmarks we've been given.
> they keep sessions (a)live (audio/video, chat, where you stop reading)
I'd also note that at 7500 tabs your computer almost certainly is not keeping those sessions alive. It's stunning how far we can get but wow, watching Chrome over the years claw it's way towards being fast to load & staying responsive, in spite of being many 100's of tabs in on a mid-range 201X phone was an incredible saga of improving software architecture. It got better and better.
There's whole means of backgrounding & persisting pages (and of preloading new pages) that's just amazing.
> In spite of your conntrarian phrasing you've kind of only sold me on tabs being a more advanced hypermedia bookmark than the simple bookmarks we've been given.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure I understand your phrasing.
> I'd also note that at 7500 tabs your computer almost certainly is not keeping those sessions alive
The person I was responding to was not talking specifically about the article, but "many people". And some people may use the tabs for one, more, or none of the reasons I listed. I was not trying to sell anything. I don't even think that tabs are a good product, only the best so far, with regard to those considerations.
> in spite of being many 100's of tabs in on a mid-range 201X phone was an incredible saga of improving software architecture
Those tabs were and are just screenshots, and reload when clicked, you could realistically not have more than around 5 open at the same time without reloading.