Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

In article <g17qr1l1akvueg250b27tdlhn17b89unqd@xxxxxxx>, foo@xxxxxxx
wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:51:39 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> >I still think this a pretty silly test. As I said in the other thread,
> >> >loading 18 tabs at once is not something most people do much.
> >>
> >> Why not? I can't imagine manually going to links via favorites - how
> >> tiresome. And the wait, too - why, if you can avoid it?
> >
> >Yeah, sure, but you *maybe* do the 'load 18 tabs' thing once, at the
> >beginning of a browsing sessions where you want to check up on your
> >favorites. Sometimes you don't, because you opened the browser to search
> >for something, not check up on your favorites. And anyway, after that
> >initial load, you're mostly following links, one at a time.
> >
> >Honestly, though, even in that situation, loading 18 tabs at once is
> >slightly crazy. The sane way to follow new stuff on 18 sites is with RSS
> >feeds, which most of the sites in your set have.
>
> Why is it crazy? It's a simple way to load the sites I want to read.

Because there are much more effective ways to follow a large number of
webs sites, these days, than loading them all at once in a browser.

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