Is It Better To Have Fewer Browser Windows With Lots Of Tabs, Or Lots Of Windows With Fewer Tabs Open?

[joko]

Just curious in terms of ease of use etc

obviosuly having lots of either open is going to slow you down a bit etc, but i tend to have a lot of stuff open at once.

I regularly go through closing anything i dont need, but wondering generally what is most efficient?
More windows with fewer tabs open?
OR
Fewer browser windows with more tabs?

Sometimes I have about 7 windows and sometimes hundreds of tabs open in most of them, and its usually fine either way.

Although both ways are fine , I assume there is probably a way the machine 'prefers', in order to fuction at its best?

Im mainly on firefox, but i do use others too. i assume the answer is more about the machine than the browser itself ...?

any thoughts?
thanks :)

[TonyV]

joko what are you trying to achieve?

[THELOONYCORBYN]

If youre on Windows then open your Task Manager and see what the memory usage and processor usage hit is...then you can decide

[CrapAtCryptics]

The more you have open the more ram you use so your machine will run slower especially if you dont have a lot to start with. The bare minimum for current windows and programs is 8gb. I cant see any good reason for having more than 2-3 windows open.

[hc4361]

How do you keep tabs on hundreds of open tabs? It doesn't take long to open a webpage. I keep 12 open, the rest I open and close as and when needed

[Old_Geezer]

I use lots of browsers with lots of windows with lots of tabs. (And can never find what I'm looking for.)

[Arksided]

Tabs for me when on-line... everything else a separate window.

However if you open another window using the same browser using less tabs (sharing the no. of different tabs) it would make it easier for yourself, which I believe wouldn't make that much difference.

As suggested though try task manager.