I’m notorious for having far too many tabs open. 50 is about average. What can I say when you have 2Gigs of RAM under the hood and a blazing processor, you don’t really notice having even 100 tabs open. It’s much more about the capacity of your brain to remember the sequence, order and grouping of the tabs.

I keep tabs open for long sessions. Some tabs stay in my browser for weeks or months even. As reminders to eventually cycle back through and catch up on some reading or follow through with writing an artist about their work or remember to link to something in another blog post, etc.

While scrolling through my tabs (ctrl+PgUp or ctrl+PgDn – I’m on PC) I noticed the filmic, FPS-like nature of how one scrolls and keeps track of the data therein.

The following three quicktime files show how tabs are dealt with over the course of a week: some added, some grouped (again, brain capacity), some removed or handled with in another capacity, some who didn’t load, other logged into, and so-forth.

2007 Mar 03 – 52 tabs (709k)
[qt:http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/bonus/TABS-20070303-QT-final.mov 500 234]

2007 Mar 08 – 58 tabs (898k)
[qt:http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/bonus/TABS-20070308-QT-final.mov 500 234]

2007 Mar 11 – 59 tabs (933k)
[qt:http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/bonus/TABS-20070311-QT-final.mov 500 234]

PS – made with Firefox