6/6 Am I in alone is really hating tabbed web browsing? I cannot stand
it! If I go to a new site I like to have a new window because I
might want to see both sites at once or I might want to kill the
window entirely if it gets hung up. From my POV tabbed browsing is
not a plus.
\_ I multitask between 2-3 different things, meaning I need to
go back and forth on documentation, manpage, various test URLs,
etc. But then again I'm a very atypical developer since I can
do many things at the same time. My take is if you're a better
single tasker, multi-tabs may be too difficult to grasp.
\_ How can you multitask when you can only see one site at a time?
Tabs are sort of the antithesis of multitasking.
\_ You are dense. I'm sure that's not the first time
you've heard this. You think everyone should think like
you and if not, they're idiots. Dumb fuck. I'm done
with you.
\_ I'm reading a piece of code, then I need to branch off
to understand a function, then I need another function,
then I need to come back, then RFTM, then email, then
calendar, then check news. I don't want to keep opening
new windows, so tab seems the best next thing.
\_ This sounds like serial tasking to me.
\_ Very true, but the cost of context-switch is
1/5-1/10 of the original cost of serially changing
URLs. Did you even take CS162?
\_ Which part of CONTEXT-SWITCH don't you
understand? Motherfucker!
\_ PP does SMP
\_ prev post is a rip-off from a movie
\_ Which is what people do. I don't think you read two
pages at the exact same time. Do you read books by
starting each page at the top all at once?
\_ And lucky for you you can turn it off.
\_ Of course. I just don't see why this is some 'feature' that
people seem to get excited about. It would be nice if it
went away.
\_ YOU don't see it, but many people do. Majority rules.
Yeah yeah, you're smarter and better than everyone else
so YOU don't see WHY people want it in the first place,
and YOU wish it would go away. What a fucking tard.
\_ Yes, the majority usually is right about deciding
what's best - from McDonald's to VHS.
\_ it's not going away. just don't use it.
\_ Well, I like it a lot, I hardly ever want to see 2 sites
at once. I do open up a lot of tabs though.
\_ Safari now makes it easy to take a tab and make it a new
window. The few times I want two windows at a time it is
a nice feature to have.
\_ Now *this* is a nice feature.
\_ And opera's had this feature for about 5 years.
\_ Great. |