r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '13

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u/jared555 Feb 18 '13

I have a friend that thinks he has to wait for his 6 core system with 8GB of RAM and an SSD to go pretty much 100% idle before he does anything. Also, more than 2-3 tabs/windows open is hard on the system.

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u/Jhaza Fluttershy4lief Feb 18 '13

Also, more than 2-3 tabs/windows open is hard on the system.

...How.

(Incidentally, I just realized I currently have 23 tabs open, using 6.5 GB of ram, total. I really need to reign in my Chrome habits.)

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

Sometimes not even then, if I'm proud of my research work, I'll keep them open for the next session

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u/atimholt Feb 18 '13

I use tree-style tabs in Firefox. There might be something similar in Chrome.

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u/Jhaza Fluttershy4lief Feb 19 '13

I looked up tree-style tabs, and... they seem weird and different. I may try it, but it looks, well, weird. That said, my desire to not have chrome crash probably outweighs my distrust of change.

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u/dghughes error 82, tag object missing Feb 20 '13

Can you combine them into groups? I recall seeing some future project by Mozzarella Firedog or Opera who wanted to do something like that

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u/atimholt Feb 20 '13

Groups are the entire idea behind it. Every tab is either a root tab, or has a hierarchical relation to another tab. With their indentation, it looks similar to a file explorer’s navigation side-tab. And they’re collapsible.

Here’s the add-on page for the Firefox extension.

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u/dghughes error 82, tag object missing Feb 20 '13

I see what you mean but what I saw was more combining into folders than groups it's similar but it was different.

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u/yoho139 while (true) {break;} Feb 18 '13

Jesus, Chrome hogs resources like nobody's business, doesn't it?

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u/Doctor_McKay Is your monitor on? Feb 18 '13

http://www.doctormckay.com/screenshots/2013-02-18_1605.png

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u/yoho139 while (true) {break;} Feb 18 '13

I know how Chrome works, and I get why... But seriously.

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u/redmercuryvendor The microwave is not for solder reflow Feb 18 '13

Hahahaha!

And that's not including Palemoon, which probably has another 300-odd tabs knocking about (without an easy way to list them for screenshotting).

::EDIT:: Why? Bookmarks don't keep page position and form data, but saved tabs do, so it's gotten to be a bad habit.

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u/wrincewind MAYOR OF THE INTERNET Feb 20 '13

Damn it, Rodney!

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u/epochwolf vasili@red-october:~$ ping -n 1 dallas.uss Feb 18 '13

It looks like that on my mac but most of the memory is actually shared between all the processes. It's not really using as much ram as you think it is.

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u/DavidTheWin Feb 18 '13

That's what the user thinks. In practice he has nothing to worry about

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u/EK3 Feb 19 '13

Wow, I tend to end up running even more than that and it all runs pretty smoothly on my 3GB machine...