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[Jon12345]

I would like to discuss the issue of multiple forum tabs being open. Do you find you have loads of forum tabs open at any one time, slowing your PC to a crawl? Why does this happen?

Let me give you an example: in one forum, I have 5 threads I have participated in and following, waiting for the next messages and also using it as reference. That is 5 tabs open.

Others can be windows showing stats that I keep refreshing. Others are books I may want to buy.

Why does this happen? Does it happen to you? What is your solution?

Thanks,

Jon

[mickmel]

I tend to keep a lot of tabs open, but you can certainly cut down on those:

1 -- Subscribe to the threads you're interested in and only worry about them when replies come in. That's what I'll do with this thread -- reply/subscribe, then close the window. When you or someone else replies, I'll get an email and open it back up.

2 -- I don't understand the book tabs. Read the content and deal with them. Buy the book, decide not to buy the book, or else add it to a "books I want to buy later" list. There's no reason to keep the tab open all the time.

[Candid]

I am not a programmer, but I certainly know that each web page you have open is almost like a separate instance of your web browser running. You can see this if you are in Windows by opening the Task Manager and looking at the process tab.

The solution is simple, stop having tabs open all the time. Close them when you are done working with them. Almost all of your instances can be replaced with methods that use less of your computer's resources.

As Jon indicates, you need to learn to subscribe to threads in forums you participate in and have an email sent to you when someone responds to the thread. Or just go daily and check forums you are watching. Most forums have a way for you to mark all threads read, this will help you to see which threads have new material since your last visit.

For other things like books you might be interested in reading, you'll need to decide how to keep track of them. You could have a someday/maybe list of books you might like to read. I do something more simple, and put any book I'm interested in on my Amazon wish list.Since I mostly buy through Amazon this is an effective tool for me.

[shane_k]

no, this doesn''t happen for me.

I just decide I am going to check one forum and then go on that forum and spend like
5, 15, or 30 minutes on it depending on if there isn't anythig more important that I need to be doing. (I would never be on a forum while I am at work though.)

I don't understand why do you need to constantly have those forums open in tabs?

are you scared of missing out on something?

That just seems very unproductive to have them all open constantly and continously refreshing the pages and checking every few minutes to see any updates.

Maybe a good idea would be to setup a block of time say 1 hour. and only in that 1 hour are you allowed to check out forums. Outside of that 1 hour then you focus on other things.

[Brad H]

Another suggestion. Get a second web browser. To spread those tabs out.

In my opinion there needs to be some sort of website tickler program to keep track of all the links we want to come back to. But it doesn't seem to be invented yet.

http://www.davidco.com/forum/showthr...ckler-programs

The slow computer is usually caused by one webpage slowing everything down. And maybe a different browser will handle many tabs better too.

[Gardener]

I feel like I'm missing something. Why not use bookmarks?