Monday, September 14, 2009

The benefits and perils of Google Chrome browser (in context of multitasking and productivity)

Without doubt, Chrome has made me more productive - its UI responds nearly-immediately to my actions, making my own speed - and not the software's - the primary barrier/deciding-factor to how fast I can work (which is a good thing). I freely and quickly group and rearrange tabs, and overall, the UI is very responsive.

This was the good part. The bad part is that I've started multitasking much more now. I open many more tabs in Chrome (and Opera), compared to when I'm in other browsers. I can even hypothesize that Chrome/Opera users open more tabs (on average) than Firefox users, who open more tabs than IE users. And all these open tabs give a kind-of restlessness to the mind - they give the feeling of many pending tasks, reducing my mind's concentration.

An example of my typical Chrome window

Guess I'll have to adopt some self-controlling policies to prevent myself from drowning in these tabs.
Posted by Rishabh Singla at 7:03 PM

2 comments:

  1. SemilJanuary 25, 2010 8:15 AM

    ha that's nothing
    it is very common for me to have over 100 tabs open in firefox.
    i think my record is something around 270 - 300 tabs open at once.

    its the same with chrome but i don't use chrome now since it causes my computer to crash but also because chromes text selections is broken i think, chrome should select text like firefox does it

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  2. Rishabh SinglaJanuary 25, 2010 3:12 PM

    270-300? God!

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