How many tabs do you have open on average when online? Also, what's your average session time online, and how often do you go online a week? Lastly what browser do you use most, and which ones least?

Thanks.

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

Thanks

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

thanks for your answer...excellent

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by wyldefyre on November 20th, 2008

Thanks. By tabs, I mean separate page/site views, open concurrently, each in a separate tab, but all within the same window. The tabs are delineated along the top, just like file folders in a file cabinet. Each window is like the file folder. If you right-click a link, the top option is usually something like 'open link in new tab', and the next is 'open link in new window'. Firefox, and others, Chrome, even IE now, (don't know about Opera) have been using tabs for several years. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(GUI) for a pic.

Like you, I have many, many open at once.

Which sites do you find that Firefox can't handle? The only one I have problems with, sometimes, surprisingly, is Gmail.

Lately I have been using Chrome, even though it's a resource hog, because it crashes less than FF, which I think crashes less than IE. I have been planning on Opera forever, but never got around to it.

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

OK I didn' think you could possiblty mean that, I see I'm wrong. Not all browsers do tabs autmatiocally.. and even thiose that do can't show them all at once so it's not really posiblt to count them. Suffice it to say that i sometimes fill the bar on firefox. With AB, I find IE opens new windows.
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Firefox does most things for me, but my bank stalls, DHL.com, some game sites and a few others I can't remember won't work. If FF fails I drop back to IE.

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by dead leaves raked in a pile on November 21st, 2008

Thanks, I was just wondering how others actually web; ultimately to see if my way is most efficient for me, because I know I hog a lot of bandwidth on my wifi at home, and others complain, plus I am interested in all things web to some extent (taught design at a community college in the 90's). I know I could open fewer, but I do get to reading all the ones I open eventually.

I believe most newer browsers do tabs now. As to counting them, FF has a little icon on the side, where it will list them all down, and Chrome has shown over 40 at once in one window - I've never gone higher than that, because of sysresources, but I do like how it crams 'em all so one can see that one is over-tabbing. Thanks again

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

I see. I"ll look for that number...

I tend to multitask a lot... doing audio editing printing web browsing (with many windows/tabs) DTP, graphic editing and listening to BBC radio online all at once, or at least with programs idling in background ready for me.. And IMS, don't forget IMs

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by dead leaves raked in a pile on November 21st, 2008

It's not a number, ya gotta count by hand, the icon (it might be a plus, it's on the right side of the browser, near the tab -forward -back arrows are just opens a list of them all, so one can nav to them quickly.

Any of your audio online available for listening/dl? What audio programs do you use? Mac or Win? I've used a few, way back....

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

OK thanks I'll go count. but these days in AB, I close each tab once I've dealt with it - so I do not get so many any more.
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I use Windows (tried and didn't get on with Mac) and mostly use Audacity. It's seems good to me for multitracking, and I like the price.
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I also use the Nero editor for tweaking before burning a CD
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I make CDs (about 100 a month) but I'm about to start putting recordings online - they will be linked from http://www.worldpoetry.org - they're recordings of a monthly poetry reading. Quality varies, I just get what I can. Last month everyone used the wrong mic so I only got a distant recording and a lot of hiss when i boosted the volume.

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by dead leaves raked in a pile on November 21st, 2008

Yep, I close the AB tabs also...I just often find more to open!

I'll check out audacity (I'm also Win) and will delicious mark the poetry site

Thanks again!

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by wyldefyre on November 21st, 2008

i'll have to find out about delicious

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by dead leaves raked in a pile on November 21st, 2008