are several tabs open dependent on bandwidth alone?

demonikal

demonikal

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I think I might have asked this question a year or so ago, but I can't find it. It might have been something I wanted to ask and never did :)

Are having multiple tabs open (I'm talking like over 30 tabs) solely dependent upon having a fast upload and download internet speed :confused: Or is it also dependent upon amount of RAM, assuming someone has the fastest RAM available on the market without being overclocked :confused:

And what is the significance of clearing your cache, in Mozilla Firefox for example? Will this allow you to browse faster, assuming that the cache being stored is for webpages you visited previously?
 
It's more RAM dependent. Typically when you open a new tab, the previous tab is already loaded so it's not using bandwidth. If you tried to open 30 tabs at once, then your connection does come into play, but any decent broadband would be fine.

Speed of the memory really doesn't matter here, it's just the amount of RAM.

Clearing cache will cause web pages to load slower, as it has to pull a fresh copy of images and website data.
 
That's good to hear about the cache, cuz I've always thought the opposite. It's nice (no sarcasm) when someone can tell me that my way has been wrong all along.

The reason I asked this question is because I've been doing a ton of surfing lately. If I have over like 20 Wikipedia.com tabs open or even like 30+ image webpages open, it seems rather odd that recently one of two things will happen:

1. My graphics card video will crash and say it "recovered", even though I will then have a white screen for Firefox until I close it.

2. I'll get a BSOD.

I don't use Chrome anymore, only becuz it seems to eat up my resources faster than FF. I don't know if that's true though.

I have 16 GB of RAM. I have since 2012. It's the maximum my motherboard will support. Nothing is overclocked. I've never tried, so if my RAM is failing on me, I don't know why that would be other than age-related issues.
 
I don't know what a driver set is, unless you mean the actual driver I'm currently using for my GPU, but my card is a: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430, extremely basic. I bought it for the price at the time. I don't even remember why I chose that particular card when I could have gone even cheaper than that.

Since I don't game anymore, I didn't think it was necessary to get something high-end. Even when I can afford to do another build, I don't plan on investing much in the graphics card. It's one of the least of my worries, unless of course there are other reasons I should want a higher-end one, other than movies and hoping for a Blu-ray reader.
 
Cache can work to both help and hinder you. If your browser wants to display something, it first looks in the cache to find it and, if found, loads it which is much faster than downloading it. However, if it doesn't find what it needs in the cache and has to download it, then the time it took to search the cache was wasted and it would have been better to just download the content.

The reason that it helps to clear the cache is that as the content in the cache ages, it becomes less and less likely that it will be relevant so then it is best to flush the cache and start over.
 
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