[GTALUG] Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

[Alvin Starr]

On 12/11/2017 12:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2017-12-10 09:50 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>> 1. You need to set up at least 10 windows in FF.
>> 2. You need to find some kind of topics so that you have ranging from
>> say 5 to 35 tabs open on EACH of those windows.
> I'm feeling some déjà vu here: wasn't it suggested a few months ago that
> 50–350 pages open at the same time is way beyond what a general-purpose
> web browser might be expected to display? Each one of those pages can be
> executing arbitrary code of unknown size. Maybe I'm a web protozoan, but
> the findability of tabs drops massively when I've got more than a few in
> even a single window.
>
> FF57 is much cleaner than before, and is at least as fast as Chrome. You
> can quit FF, then have it restart with all your windows and tabs open.
> The clever part is, it'll only render that tab when it gets focus, so
> you could have hundreds of tabs open yet only a few loaded. So while I'm
> pretty sure it won't fit your needs of an entire Starbucks-load of pages
> in the one browser, it might get a little closer than FF <57.
>
>
The trouble is that more and more services, systems and applications are 
using HTML as the interface.
So you will find yourself with pages(tabs) open in your browser instead 
of applications open on your desktop.
Typically I run 20 tabs to keep applications I frequently use open and 
add on to that things I am working on ... now you have lots of little tabs.

What I find as a bit nuance is when something crashes your browser it 
takes down all your open pages and your getting as much or as little as 
the restore on start up gives you.

It would be nice to have the ability to run multiple browsers that are 
independent of each other on the same desktop as the same user but 
Chrome and Firefox keep their context on a per user basis.

I am sure there is some way to get around this but I have not yet been 
sufficiently aggravated to figure out the magical incantation.



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