this is not a test. this is a poll.

Poll. Because they are there and I can't think of a reason not to. Also because I discovered a fascinating fact; I am going to die before I finish this story that was already finished before svmadelyn says "I think you skimmed some of this" which is why it went from a healthy 29K to an unfinished 45K that, due to cleverly deleting what you had before, now requires a rewrite that you suspect will only end with your life. Which is somehow ironic, considering the premise.

...right. Poll! Here!

[Poll #1316542]

ETA: Trufax - I think my most was thirteen. I del.icio.us all fic I read or want to read and live in terror of a browser shutdown. I am boggling at 121 now. I want to try that.

Comments

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

So if the laptop didn't fuss at me & grind a bit, I would routinely be in the 21-50 range. Well that and if I had the second monitor. 'Cause when I had that, I had lots of different windows/tabs open & several AIM conversations too.

All of which makes my hubby a bit sick. He hates watching me surf the 'net.

~L

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*dies* I get eleven and start shutting them down.

[miella]

I almost always have about 40 open, and often get up to 70 or so. Then, if I've been offline for a while, getting up to 100 is no sweat at all.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...wow. I had no idea it was that common. I saw someone have like, seventy and was like OMG.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

I love that, so far, no one has less than 11. :)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

The Age of Tabs and Firefox is a wondruous one. *g*

[jillsjourney.livejournal.com]

I think my highest was something like 122, when my internet wasn't working. I would go to the library, open a shitload of tabs on my laptop, and then bring it back home to read the tabs all night. Normally though, between 1 and 2 dozen.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that makes sense. When I was offline I would open a huge number of windows to read later.

[joesther.livejournal.com]

I tend to open tabs and then forget to close them. I also have a bunch of fics that I keep meaning to read in a whole bunch of them (I'm going to guess at least 15 or so, maybe as many as 30) but who has time to read fic?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*heee* Make sense.

[burnishedvictory]

121 - I just kept moving stuff I meant to deal with into a bookmark folder and finally dealt with it when I had time again. Every time I opened the folder it attempted to crash my computer. The Youtube tabs were the worst because every time I opened the folder they would all start playing and I'd be hit with a bunch of noise that took forever to stop. Solution: turn off speakers, then open the tabs.

Also, I just checked. My current 'to deal with' folder has 261 bookmarks. I have a feeling that one's going to succeed in crashing my computer when I open it. :)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

....wow.

[argosy.livejournal.com]

Right now this very second I have 39 tabs open in one window, and 12 open in another window. It slows everything down, but I CAN'T STOP MYSELF. This is actually kind of on the low side for me. Please send help.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...did you see the people above? I HAVE LIKE SEVEN RIGHT NOW AND I FEEL THAT IS PUSHING IT.

[ariadne83]

I went with "Why In The Name of God". It was slooow, but in my defense I was catching up on the flist after I got back from holiday, and I always open links and LJ-cuts in a new tab.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Yes, the slowness. And terror of crashing for me.

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

I get twitchy once I can't see the page title, but from time to time I have a bunch of links from one place that I want to look at, so I tab 'em all open at once and go through them one by one.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

This. I need the title. As God knows what I might have opened by accident. What if it was GoatseLand or something?

[writinginct.livejournal.com]

On purpose? 11-20

By accident when the boxer jumped up and hit the mouse? Well over 100 as it somehow opened one of my bookmark folders "in tabs". ^.^

I do LOVE using tabs though!

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...wow.

Bookmark folders can do that? *twitch* Oh dear.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

Downloading pictures from hq pictures board. Oh, yeah, over 100 ain't hard to hit. Bless that cable internet.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Tabs were invented for that, I think.

[sage]

83, most of which were fic to read or research for fic I'm writing. I figure if I keep maps of the region a fic is set in open indefinitely, then I'll HAVE to pick up the WIP one of these days, right? :P

There were 64 open on the laptop before it crashed and I have 8 open right now on the poor struggling tortoise of a desktop (2 fics and a recs set).

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*heee* Actually, that's good logic there. *nods*

[wyomingnot.livejournal.com]

I've only been over 11 *once*. I generally don't like tabs. I usually have only three or four browser windows at a time (*usually*) - yahoo mail, flist, and whatever fic I'm reading at the time. Fourth randomly gets opened for a check of the weather or gmail. Or shopping. That's it.

(and they have to be in a specific order on the taskbar, too. but let's not talk about that)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I have to keep mine in a specific order, too.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Regularly I'm probably between ten and twenty at any given time, but sometimes there are a lot of stories or episode reaction posts or something that I want to read, so it can go up to 40 or 50 when that happens. Before I disabled the Tab Mix extension, they would all be in neat rows, so I could see them all at once, too, which is nice.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Tab Mix does the rows? Neat! I saw someone's screenshot like that and wondered what made it row up.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I regularly have no more open than will fit across the screen without scrolling, which is about nine or ten.

However, I have at times opened up more in order to do something, usually editing. Like, I just a few moments ago had probably 25-30 tags open. The nine I have open right now, which are, at least for the moment, semi-permanent, plus I had just added a bunch of comics to BookMooch and needed to edit the condition fields for all of them, so rather than opening them each up, editing, then moving on, I opened them all, edited, and closed as I finished.

That sort of thing is not unusual for me, but it's always only if they're going to be closed immediately. I can't stand having more than a few open permanently.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I have two permanent, and three that I open regularly. It's the load time and resources I worry about; Firefox gets huge fast.

The editing thing is a really good idea. I keep not thinking to do that when I'm working on my webpage or editing something online. *makes note*

[libitina]

I start the week reading my flist and opening all the fic written/mentioned/recced into a tab. And then I try to close them all by the end of the day Friday.

If my browser crashes, then I figure if the stories were really all that good, I'll see them recced again.

But then sometimes there are people on my friendslist *squints* who mention badfic. And then by the time I get to that tab, I have forgotten whether it was recced seriously or mockingly - and then I'll also have forgotten which person I should blame for this travesty. Just saying...

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*dies* Oh man. Hitting a badfic by accident. That would *hurt*. Because if someone recced its badness, it's going to be...well. Scarring.

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

My problem is Wikitraps. I click and click and click, and four hours later look up and wonder why it's dark out.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I am not even going to LOOK THAT UP or I am so screwed. I'm still working my way through Etiquette Hell.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

I can't even *imagine* having over 20! I freak out if I can't see titles, and usually only have about 6 to 8. I must say, though, that I have to have tab bar filled since having empty space there bothers me ever so much. *g*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Teh empty spaces are kind of--unfinished looking. I usually have six or seven open.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Right now I have five Firefox windows open (each one has a different purpose or subject; like, I'm typing this one in the LiveJournal window, and there's also a window for email and email-related things, and a research one, and so on). The windows have 27, 73, 37, 25, and 4 tabs. For me, that's actually a relatively low number; usually I have at least one window with more than 100 tabs. (Things get bad when I have two or three windows with 100+ tabs. My computer...does not like that.)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

...I bow before your awesome.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

I really try not to. At the moment I have 12 browsers with 7-10 tabs in each. ...but it just happens... I can't help it...

I've been trying to use delicious more... I have an "unread" folder. but that still doesn't help me with Google Reader and all the tabs that end up being opened as a result... or Google News.

Then there's a separate browser window for each page of LJ that I got behind on (with accompanying tabs) oh, and Facebook and Flickr.

Finally iTunes and MahJong are also open.

My iBook hates me. =(

I'm embarrassed.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the great thing? If/when FF crashes? I have the option of restoring the lost session. yay me!! \0/

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I use Safari, where you really don't have to think about how many tabs you have open. My regular number is 10-15, but eBay-browsing can raise it to a hundred at times. Of cource screen capping wouldn't proove this since anything over something like thirty will be hidden from the tab view...

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*heee* I keep meaning to see Safari in use one day. I've heard good things about it.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I picked 21-50, but that was because I thought you wanted how many I *usually* have open, not the greatest number I've *ever* had open (slight difference there.) I have 31 open right now, and that's about average. Mostly fic and rec pages, a few websites I want to go back to and check out.

Over the years, my cat, Scully, has done many bizarre and horrible things to my computer with inopportune landings on my keyboard from on high, but one of the strangest things she ever did (and I still don't know how she did it) was when I refused to give her any cat treats and went away to the bathroom, and when I got back, it seems she had somehow opened about 800 tabs with her butt in revenge. Just by sitting on my keyboard. No idea what key does that, but she managed it. Since I didn't want to close down and start afresh/lose my legit tabs, I had to close 750+ tabs one at a time. Every one of them was the same Mozilla Firefox Add-on page.

[thecomfychair.livejournal.com]

Right now I have like 20? It has been a slow day on Livejournal. And 10 of those are permatabbed, so I've got 10 against me every time I start, and it just...quickly builds from there.

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

I have had so many tabs open that I've crashed the damn browser, and more than once. Sadly, I have no idea whether it was 100+, but I know for sure that it's been over 50! But this works really well for when *&%^$# Time Warner decides to suck, like, say, most of the last 24 hours! If you have tons of fanfic open in tabs, you'll never completely lose your mind without internet access. ;D

[carnadosa.livejournal.com]

I mostly leave it at 15-20, but if I'm checking the WIPs I'm following (which I think is about 95 right now) I definitively hit over 50 (though I tend to only check 2/3s of the list with any sort of regularity). I have a desktop. I can have three adobe products, itunes, word and firefox open and not have too much of a appreciable difference in processing time. If I open Google Earth after that things get a little hairy.)