Right now, I am...

[andrewducker]

tabs = tabs+windows
Chrome = "will at least try it out and see if it's any good"
[Poll #1401748]

Comments

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Tabs or windows? I have both.

[andrewducker]

Both. I've edited the post to say that.

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Also, the Chrome poll needs an option of "Probably." "Will" seems a little commitmental to me - I like it better in a lot of ways, but the bookmark system also needs work.

[moosedevil.livejournal.com]

I thought this too!

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

I would also go for the option of 'quite likely': don (my partner) uses it, but I haven't played around with it that much yet because internet - adblock plus = FAAAAAIIIILLL. If it had that then at least there'd be a level playing field for me to try it out on!
But until then I don't experience many problems with FF.

[andrewducker]

Good point. Edited the post to say that too!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Firefox does everything I want, and does it well, particularly with the addition of terrific add-ons like Adblock Plus (without which I would be very sad) and Morning Coffee and such. Why would I leave?

[andrewducker]

I partially agree - but I've heard nice things about Chrome. I'll certainly be trying it when it supports add-ons. Mostly I've heard that it doesn't have the problem FF sometimes does where one slow tab can leave the entire app being horribly sluggish.

[natural20.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox in work currently and will probably stick with that. However at home I use Chrome. There's no terribly deep reason for this split, it just seems to work better for me right now. So, no plans to move to Chrome, having already sorta done so, but this may change.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I normally use Firefox but for some reason it is disabled at work :-(

I'll keep an eye on Chrome

[broin.livejournal.com]

You can run Firefox off a USB key - google for it - and it'll likely bypass that.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Thank you I had no idea. I think they are also going to disable those, but they haven't yet.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen places put glue in machines' USB ports. But if you use a USB mouse...

Fight The Power!

[andrewducker]

Bit of a basic method.

Our USB ports at work are set to allow mice/keyboards, but not hard drives to be attached.

[avatar.livejournal.com]

Is that safe?

[broin.livejournal.com]

Is what safe?

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I almost wish I'd found this while using the phone rather than the laptop - then I could have been the only one to choose both Opera and Other Mobile (Blackberry).

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I'll perhaps move to Chrome once they support my OS.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

If you're using GNU/Linux (or indeed one of the BSDs), you're probably OK using Chromium. It's supposed to be pre-alpha still, but I've been using it as my main browser for a week, and other than lack of Flash support I've had no problems with it.
If you're using a Mac, then CrossOver Chromium apparently works quite well...

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I tried it and it didn't work for me. Can't remember the exact failure mode.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Huh, I hadn't even heard of Chromium - thanks for that.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

I alternate between Firefox, Chrome and Opera at work. At home I use Konqueror and Firefox.

[andrewducker]

What advantages does Konqueror have over Firefox?

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Pretty much zero, but it's intergrated into the KDE 4 desktop in a sort of similar way to IE in Windows. There's probably default settings I could change but I can't be bothered to find out.

I mainly use GNOME rather than KDE anyway, just thought it was worth mentioning since it's probably the most obvious one missing.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I think Epiphany is probably a more obvious missing one than Konqueror, because most desktop distros tend to come with GNOME rather than KDE as standard...

[matgb]

This was the first entry on my friends page when I opened the browser up, so the number of tabs open was tiny. I normally have two windows, each running 5 tabs or so, any more than that and this low-spec machine starts to creak and slow down.

Not 42 ...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

"41" for me means averaging around 100 tabs in two FF windows.
Apparently I'm an outlier on this poll, next nearest is 37 at the time of commenting.

Re: Not 42 ...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I'm interested to know how that's in any way practical. How many screens to you have? How big are they? Why do you have so many open? Once you have to scroll that far to the side to get to a tab wouldn't it take less time just to bookmark things on your toolbar or somewhere like that and reload them when you get to them - given how powerful your puter must be to deal with that many tabs simultaneously I'm assuming loading times would hardly be an issue...

Re: Not 42 ...

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

I've only got about 13 open on this computer (at my parents') but my own tends to average around 70. It's because...basically I never go back to things if I bookmark them, but if I leave them open in a tab I will get to them. I tend to have all my "usual" sites, plus anything interesting-looking that's been linked to from someone's journal/twitter/fb gets opened in a new tab, and often stays open so I remember to link to it next time I post. A bunch of TV Tropes pages, usually, because it's so branch-y, it's impossible to read linearly. Sometimes even things just I want to show people next time they come round.

Once you get to 10 tabs or so open in Firefox there's a drop-menu at the right that lets you see the full titles of them all and go straight to them.

Re: Not 42 ...

[marrog.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know about the drop-menu collapse thingy (I do hit fifteen or sixteen sometimes but that's about my limit). But given that the bookmarks toolbar does exactly the same thing, and, as you say, most of the tabs aren't visible to you anyway, how is it different or more or less convenient? Less so for the browsing-of-the-now, but for the ones you plan to go back to?

I guess it's six and half a dozen if your computer can handle that many tabs..

Re: Not 42 ...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

The simple answer is "seems to work for me" :)
One screen (laptop, 17"/widescreen). 2.2GHz Core2Duo, 2Gb RAM, so I guess it's reasonably powerful.
There are options in about:config which let you adjust the size and spacing of the tabs on the tab bar - 55 tabs fit across the screen for me, so I don't need to scroll too much. I have lots of tabs open for LJ and Dreamwidth and Facebook and similar sites (on LJ, I have different filters for various groups, on DW I use the default filters for people/communities/feeds). I have a bunch of sites open that I look at every day or two, a bunch of "I'm going to get around to reading that one day" tabs open, and ... stuff. I do a lot of bookmarking too, but bookmarked stuff tends to get forgotten, or at least not revisited any time soon.

Every now and then FF crashes, fortunately Session Manager usually recovers everything ok (takes a while, depending on how many pages are cached vs reloaded).

Re: Not 42 ...

[drjon.livejournal.com]

I have a stupidly enormous amount of tabs open in three windows. It's a wonder the machine hasn't crashed.

One of these days I'm going to hit 1000 tabs. I think I need treatment.

Re: Not 42 ...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

I think I need treatment.

Or a linkfrenzy post :-)

Re: Not 42 ...

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy: one's on it's way (over half full already, and the tabs for them have already been closed).

Of course, I can only run so many links in a linkfrenzy before the size limit hits...

So that early statement should actually read: "more than one's on their way".

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

I have nine tabs open in Chromium, which I'm using to read this, but I have twenty-something tabs set to open each time I open IceWeasel, which I'm slowly ploughing through. I've only been using Chromium a few days though - normally I use Epiphany as my main browser with IceWeasel as my 'having tons of tabs in the background' browser.
I also use IceWeasel for banking, because my bank will only accept three browsers (I use the User Agent Switcher to make the bank think it's IE).
Running on Debian GNU/Linux with the linux-libre kernel.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I mostly use Chrome when I boot into Windows, perhaps partly because I've set up Firefox to store all the tabs I left open last time, and when I do boot into Windows it's usually for some specific thing that I need to get done. I like Chrome, for the most part, but as well as the addons it would need to (a) Run in Ubuntu, and (b) Support my 'scroll up and down' mousepaddy buttony thing, before I'd really be happy with it as my main browser. Also, considering how big their hype was on anti-flakeout measures, it's a bit disappointing that it doesn't actually seem to be much less flaky than FF.

The 'new tab' system they nicked from Opera is great, though.

Oh, also, I've been using Flock sporadically, lately. Does that count as 'other Mozilla'? I suppose it probably does. The lack of Adblock is a real problem there, and it's maybe overloaded with features I'm not sure I'm into - but it's an interesting concept, and gods it's nice having a good way of uploading photos without crashing my browser (which facebook's Java uploader does to Firefox in Ubuntu pretty much every time...)

[andrewducker]

AdBlockPlus works just fine with Flock...
Also:
http://www.techspikes.com/2008/09/solution-google-chrome-mouse-scroll-issue/

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Wooh! Thanks. Obviously I haven't fully explored the potential of Flock yet. Also I should probably have googled about the mouse scroll thingamy - I wonder which of the six solutions offered there will turn out to help...

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

My work laptop running WinXP is dead, so I'm using a Linux box while that's being repaired.

Chrome's biggest flaw is, indeed, the lack of Xmarks, SubmitToTab, Web Developer, and so on. Otherwise, I love it.