I always hold at least two digits' worth of tabs open, usually grouped into stacks. For instance, I have a stack of music/radio related tabs (e.g. youtube), several stacks with documentation that I infrequently need, stacks with tabs that I will read sometime later in the week/month/year, stacks related to various issues in the code I am working on, and so on.
I can't be bothered to use bookmarks for these things, having tabs in stacks is much more convenient. If the browser lets me keep a lot of tabs open then I'll abuse this posibility for my personal comfort.
If we were to use your philosophy then Chrome should be limited to a certain amount of tabs by design. How about 6, the number of cores in my CPU?
But thank you for the diagnosis dr. Jobs, surely I'm holding the phone the wrong way too. Keep blaming the user.
It's not blaming the user. The user in this case is using the browser in an unintended way. It it therefore the users' own fault if the browser doesn't hold up.
If I want to ride my bike facing the wrong direction, it's not the fault of the designer that I can no longer steer. I could potentially make it work, but would it ever be reasonable for the manufacturer to add another set of handlebars on the back?
As for your comment about Apple claiming the user was holding their phone incorrectly, they did ultimately provide cases right and therefore admitting that enough users were having trouble to merit a change / fix ?
All said, you are using your browser wrong. Sorry to be the one who has to tell you.
That's a poor analogy. The situation of using so many tabs is about making the browser work harder, not in an incorrect manner. So if I was to compare that to riding a bike it would be like pedaling as fast as I could. If the bike couldn't handle it then yes, I would say it was the manufacturers fault.
The fact is the Chrome efficiently runs many tabs. This guy wants an extreme use case to be primarily supported or the browser must suck.
Supporting it would be a waste of developer time. If they run out of ways to make Chrome faster and have nothing better to do then sure, let's deal with this niche problem.
I can't be bothered to use bookmarks for these things, having tabs in stacks is much more convenient. If the browser lets me keep a lot of tabs open then I'll abuse this posibility for my personal comfort. If we were to use your philosophy then Chrome should be limited to a certain amount of tabs by design. How about 6, the number of cores in my CPU?
But thank you for the diagnosis dr. Jobs, surely I'm holding the phone the wrong way too. Keep blaming the user.