WinXP: Upgrading to a more powerful video card allow more web browser tabs?

[JEDI]

AMD X2 6000 cpu (dual core 3ghz), 3gigs ram, WinXP SP3.
I have an old Radeon 2600pro.

I'm using IE7 because i dont like IE8.

After opening 20 or so tabs, IE crashes.

1) Would opening 20 separate IE windows be better and allow me to open more than 20?

2) would upgrading to a newer, more powerful video card allow me to open more than 20?

 

[Soundmanred]

What does the video card have to do with anything, unless the tabbed pages contain video content?

 

[JEDI]

What does the video card have to do with anything?

with each new browser or tab, i'm using more video resources?

 

[lxskllr]

Try a different browser first. I don't think video will affect it much, unless you're a fan of watching 20 YouTube videos at one time.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

with each new browser or tab, i'm using more video resources?

I thought this was only Mac OS X. In any case, use a different browser. IE kind of sucks.

And I have no idea why you need 20 tabs open all at the same time.

EDIT:

I'm using IE7 because i dont like IE8.

Even more fail. Definitely use a different browser.

 

[lxskllr]

And I have no idea why you need 20 tabs open all at the same time.

I think that's fairly common. I keep tabs I use frequently open from session to session. I currently have 12 open, and that's a little light for me. Add a bunch of transient tabs to that, and it can get well above 20.

 

[dac7nco]

You need Opera and RAM, and nothing else. Upgrading to a GPU which offloads flash might help, but your video card has nothing to do with your browsing. Using IE of any kind is heinous fuckery - be nicer to your computer.

Daimon

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

You need Opera and RAM, and nothing else. Upgrading to a GPU which offloads flash might help, but your video card has nothing to do with your browsing. Using IE of any kind is heinous fuckery - be nicer to your computer.

Daimon

And it's IE7 as well...not even 8

I think that's fairly common. I keep tabs I use frequently open from session to session. I currently have 12 open, and that's a little light for me. Add a bunch of transient tabs to that, and it can get well above 20.

Doesn't it get a little cumbersome with so many tabs, having to flip through them to find the one you want?

 

[dac7nco]

Doesn't it get a little cumbersome with so many tabs, having to flip through them to find the one you want?

There's a thing on Opera, where is says "click tab to minimize, which I use a lot (reading forums), which makes reading easier. I've gotta stick up for his browsing methods; I have 18 open now.

 

[lxskllr]

And it's IE7 as well...not even 8


Doesn't it get a little cumbersome with so many tabs, having to flip through them to find the one you want?

Not really. My fixed tabs are always in the same place, so I know where they are. Extra tabs always go to the far right. I had to change Firefox, because they decided to start putting newly open tabs next to the parent. Highly irritating... With the new AppTabs in Firefox4, I can keep a few of the important, but little used tabs shrinkified at the very start, and that frees up some space.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I used to browse with like 50-100 tabs in Firefox. It does a lot better with more tabs than IE does. IE uses up so many GDI resources, I've heard of it crashing when it gets around 20 tabs or 20 windows.

 

[ForumMaster]

There's a thing on Opera, where is says "click tab to minimize, which I use a lot (reading forums), which makes reading easier. I've gotta stick up for his browsing methods; I have 18 open now.

the latest version (v.11) of opera also has something called tab stacking:

essentially, you can stack tabs into groups. really handy.

linky

 

[her209]

with each new browser or tab, i'm using more video resources?

No you're using more system RAM.

 

[Nothinman]

And I have no idea why you need 20 tabs open all at the same time.

I've got 15 in Chrome right now and 25-30 in FF across two windows. Like lxskllr I've got a set of them that are always in the same place and the rest just fall to the right. And IE actually makes it a little bit easier in Win7 because of the way the taskbar works, although in general I don't like using IE.

No you're using more system RAM.

And more importantly, GDI resources which are limited regardless of how much physical memory you have. It used to be that if you just banged on ctrl+t in IE it would start losing controls, misdrawing menus, etc once you hit so many tabs but I don't know if that's still true with IE8.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

ot really. My fixed tabs are always in the same place, so I know where they are. Extra tabs always go to the far right. I had to change Firefox, because they decided to start putting newly open tabs next to the parent. Highly irritating... With the new AppTabs in Firefox4, I can keep a few of the important, but little used tabs shrinkified at the very start, and that frees up some space.

You know, I used to do this. But because of the wonders of bookmarks (and a non-dialup internet connection) this kind of thing is no longer necessary.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Upgrading to a new CPU will let you open more tabs, more ram wouldn't hurt either.

 

[gsaldivar]

1. More RAM
2. Different browser (anything but slow Internet Explorer)

It's got nothing to do with the video card.