[DanBC]

70 tabs is not normal and 700 is just, well, weird. It's great to run a machine with "low" amounts of RAM but you shouldn't then complain if it does weird things.

I'd be interested in what happens if you run 700 Dillo instances?

[segmondy]

70 tabs is normal. I actually have exactly 71 right now, and that's because I opened a new tab to view this discussion.

[Touche]

Sidebar, but everyone mistakenly thinks things that they do are therefore normal. I think the difference between "normal" and "common" is a little vague. If you define "normal" the same as "common" then we could do a study and see if it is normal or not (my guess is that it is not). However "normal" can also be defined as "not unreasonable", in which case I would agree, 71 tabs is normal.

[DanBC]

70 tabs is only normal in the group of people reading HN. Other normal things for that group of people would be having a compiler installed on their OS. Would you describe having an installed compiler as normal for the general computer-using population?

I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of computer users don't ever have more than 5 tabs open at any time.

[Touche]

I'm willing to bet that some non-trivial percentage of computer users are unaware that tabs exist, and do not use them period.

[Someone]

"Would you describe having an installed compiler as normal for the general computer-using population?"

Totally off-topic, but Yes :-)

.Net has a compiler built-in (you may need the SDK to get the command-line version), many systems have a compiler for a shader language, and your packet filter may ship with one.

[justincormack]

70 tabs is perfectly normal.