Chrome is improving on the resource usage front. It's far from perfect but it's getting better.
As for privacy you could use the open source chromium, there's a fork somewhere which has all the Google removed.
As for privacy you could use the open source chromium, there's a fork somewhere which has all the Google removed.
Chrome using less resources than Firefox and IE was their sales pitch.
Now they've become what they made fun of, while Firefox is smooth as a baby's butt.
Chrome is still a huge improvement compared to the browsers it was competing against. Chrome changed the market and now the other browsers are competing in the world Chrome created. So while Chrome might fall behind in some areas now, it's naive to say that it's become what they made fun of.
It's nice there working on it, but why didn't they ever care before?
I've always assumed people talking about having hundreds of tabs open just don't understand how to properly use a browser. My grandmother, for example, usually has 100 or so open by the time I get a call about her having computer problems.
There's no logical reason I can come up with for doing this instead of using bookmarks.
Then throughout the course of the day I end up looking up API docs, get linked to blog posts, news articles, and YouTube videos, and read articles which themselves have relevant links to follow. Most of these I just open in a background tab to check out later in the day. These accumulate until I have time to go through and quickly review them. Those that I want to read and don't have the time currently go to Pocket. The rest get read or summarily closed out. I find bookmarks to be a terrible way to triage tabs.
This workflow works for me (and evidently others). It's faster than bookmarking. It's less prone to failure, in my experience (I've suffered bookmark corruption more than once). And a modern computer ought to handle many background tabs just fine. Moreover, if browsers aren't expected to be used in this fashion, they really should set an upper-limit on the number of tabs that can be opened.
Hopefully this gives you some perspective on alternative use cases. It sounds like your workflow works out well for you. I've tried it and couldn't get it to stick. If that means I don't know how to use a browser, so be it. At this point, there's enough of us (your grandmother included) that maybe the browser vendors should just find a way to cope with it better.
Each browser instance is tabbed completely across, I keep them open until I read the page fully, and then save it in keep to keep forever.
By Friday I can have hundreds of tabs that I go through and clean up. Web apps are a huge pain to constantly log in.
I run Korora with 24GB RAM and an I 7, Chrome is never a system hog for me, and most of the time it surprises me how well it handles my use.
I have hundreds of tabs open at a time. Instead of searching for something, then going to the Google page, clicking and waiting for it to load, in Firefox I search for what I want in the bar, it presents the tab as a result and opens it instantaneously.
In addition with the vertical tab bar extensions I can see a list of about 40-50 tabs open at a time, using the additional horizontal space monitors provide that web pages don't use to keep an easily visible list of tabs.
I open pages that interest me, I might read them later like I did this discussion or just drop them. Add in open tickets, reference pages, the build server, youtube, etc. and the number grows over time.
> My grandmother, for example, usually has 100 or so open by the time I get a call about her having computer problems.
Maybe she should use Firefox instead of Chrome?
> There's no logical reason I can come up with for doing this instead of using bookmarks.
I did this when I started, by now I only use bookmarks for high interest pages, no point in bookmarking everything.
So has cVim, but that has no relation to any of this.