I often visit http://del.icio.us and open several new URLs in separate tabs, this slows down my PC and hogs memory, why doesnt IE have an internal URL queue so only one tab is open at a time and I will decide whether the URL is worth adding to bookmarks/favorites when the queue presents it to me one URL at a time? The queue must be maintained internally by IE persisted to disk so in the event of crash it reloads the queue at startup.
I also think the IE HIstory view needs to be rewritten so it is more easily query-able by time, by day, by week, by hour today etc.
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Try Firefox. Its tabbing is fine for me. You might also consider adding more memory to your computer, if needed.
Are you talking about IE 6 or 7? If you don't know about 7, it's a beta release, located somewhere on MS's site. It does a job, but I'm thoroughly entrenched in Firefox.
Another Firefox user here... I don't see the use of queing the url's, especially if your concerned about memory usage, and speed, because wouldnt all that effort taken to process the url's and store them not only in ram, but on the HD (not to mention the continuous updating) slow the computer down even more. This sounds oddly counter productive. I switched to firefox about three years ago, and havent looked back. It is ahead of IE by leaps and bounds.
I agree that queues are a great thing, though I disagree on having IE handle it. The handling of the queue would be better off outside of IE, where other applications can make use of it.
To JM (Oct 01 2006), dropping a URL into a queue or bookmark is a lot less resource intensive than opening the page up in a tab in Firefox. When Firefox opens the page, there's the overhead of creating the tab, downloading the page, downloading all of the required scripts and images, parsing the page, doing the layout... That uses up a lot of processor, bandwidth, memory, and drive space when compared to just dropping the URL into a queue.