From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 8 4:55:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mongrel.pacific.net.au (mongrel.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE2037B41A for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 04:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp211.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.211]) by mongrel.pacific.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id XAA07095; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:55:20 +1100 X-Authentication-Warning: mongrel.pacific.net.au: Host ppp211.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.211] claimed to be dungeon.home Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g28D2XC29103; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:02:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200203081302.g28D2XC29103@dungeon.home> To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: chat@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Browser wars (was Re: Taming Netscape Navigator?) References: <3C7FB956.18428.510B414@localhost> <20020301201318.C3880@over-yonder.net> <200203051407.g25E7WF10805@dungeon.home> <20020305105330.H3880@over-yonder.net> <200203061331.g26DVFe15485@dungeon.home> <20020306155828.GA11735@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020306155828.GA11735@hades.hell.gr> from Giorgos Keramidas at "Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:58:28 +0200" Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:02:33 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 6th March 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2002-03-06 23:31, Stephen McKay wrote: > >> I haven't yet seen a current generation window manager I can stomach, >> and vtwm is good for a couple dozen windows, not hundreds. Actually, >> even so-called modern window managers are poor at handling 100 windows. > >Actually, so-called modern humans are also poor at handling 100 windows! >HOLLY GHOST! What do you need 100 windows for? Well, it sort of creeps up on you. Every day I seem to open and half read a couple more web pages than I close. After a month or so, that starts to add up, and I often hit 100 open windows in Opera. I never got that far with Netscape because it got too cluttered much faster, and let's face it, Netscape never stayed up long enough to open that many windows. Opera also has that really handy "Resume from when you left off" feature for those occasions when it does crash. That makes preserving your 100 half-read pages a breeze! :-) Oh, and if the tab list for the 100 open windows is getting in your way, you can minimise that too. Opera is nearly good enough to make me stop cursing the way everything now requires a browser to use it! Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message