Questions -  Tabs or Windows?

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From:   LAURA2125   2/9/2007 2:19 pm  To:  ALL  (1 of 10)    2094.1  Tabs vs windows?  Which uses less system resources (memory)? What are the advantages/disadvantages to using tabs/windows? Why do you choose to use tabs/windows? Thanks!      Options  Reply

From:   Lady Dragoness (1Dragones)    2/9/2007 2:50 pm  To:  LAURA2125  (2 of 10)    2094.2 in reply to 2094.1  I can't necessarily answer all of your questions, but I will give you some input on the subject for whatever help it may provide. Since I started using Firefox - more than a year ago - I have been using tabs.  I find that I like having the tabs at the top of my screen telling me which website is open in which tab. Switching between tabs is - at least for me - much easier than switching between windows. Open windows on my task bar often get forgotten, where having the tabs at the top of my screen helps me not to forget I was up to something in those other tabs. I don't believe having 10 websites open in 10 separate windows takes any more system resources than having 10 websites each open in their own tab; however I cannot prove that statement, it is just my opinion on that subject. If there is any difference, I would think that tabs would use fewer system resources than windows simply because the tool bars and status bar of your browser are not repeated when you are using tabs, however those things do load more than once if you are using separate windows. All of the above notwithstanding, the best way to surf the internet is still whichever way you are more comfortable. Firefox will do windows or tabs. The choice is yours.   I miss the spring flowers.        Options  Reply

From:   LAURA2125   2/9/2007 3:16 pm  To:  Lady Dragoness (1Dragones)    (3 of 10)    2094.3 in reply to 2094.2  Thank you, Dragoness.      Options  Reply

From:   El GuruŽ (AlH75)     2/9/2007 4:07 pm  To:  LAURA2125  (4 of 10)    2094.4 in reply to 2094.3  Interesting question.  I would think having windows open would take up more resources than having the same open in tabs.  Since each window would have to load the entire browser interface each time.  If I have some time later I might try an experiment on a clean profile and see what happens.      Options  Reply

From:   Lady Dragoness (1Dragones)    2/9/2007 4:23 pm  To:  LAURA2125  (5 of 10)    2094.5 in reply to 2094.3  You're most welcome.   I miss the spring flowers.        Options  Reply

From:   El GuruŽ (AlH75)     2/9/2007 5:39 pm  To:  El GuruŽ (AlH75)    (6 of 10)    2094.6 in reply to 2094.4  Okay since I had sometime I did do a couple experiments.  Plus, since it is such an interesting topic I did a blog entry about this: http://www.ffextensiongurublog.info/2007/02/09/tabs-or-windows/      Options  Reply

From:   LAURA2125   2/9/2007 8:17 pm  To:  El GuruŽ (AlH75)    (7 of 10)    2094.7 in reply to 2094.6  Thanks, AIH. That's interesting.      Options  Reply

From:   El GuruŽ (AlH75)     2/9/2007 8:38 pm  To:  LAURA2125  (8 of 10)    2094.8 in reply to 2094.7  One thing I just noticed and I didn't even plan it this way...I noticed on 3 of the 4 tests Flock (which is currently based off of Fx 1.5) was using more resources with 4 open tabs and sitting idle!      Options  Reply

From:   P. Nutbutter (Mr_Lister)    2/10/2007 5:41 am  To:  El GuruŽ (AlH75)    (9 of 10)    2094.9 in reply to 2094.4  In theory, having extra windows open would not cost a lot of extra resources. See, the "entire browser interface" is just a little XUL routine inside Firefox that is running whenever a window is refreshed, as part of the repaint routine. So it doesn't cost anything extra, in theory. Only the window structure itself would take up memory space. But not a lot. In practice, however, your experiments showed differently. I couldn't help but leave a small comment on your blog. Groetjes, Pim      Options  Reply

From:   El GuruŽ (AlH75)     2/10/2007 10:39 am  To:  P. Nutbutter (Mr_Lister)  (10 of 10)    2094.10 in reply to 2094.9  " I couldn't help but leave a small comment on your blog. " Thanks, your "small comment" helped a lot. Back to shcool for me! Edited 2/10/2007 10:41 am by The Anti-Sock aka Fx Extension GuruŽ (AlH75)      Options  Reply

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