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{{comic | {{comic | ||
| number = 1280 | | number = 1280 | ||
− | | date = October | + | | date = October 20, 2013 |
| title = Mystery News | | title = Mystery News | ||
| image = mystery news.png | | image = mystery news.png | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | With the introduction of tabbed browsing, many users, even on widescreens, will have so many tabs open that it is hard to find any given one. At 44 | + | With the introduction of tabbed browsing, many users, even on widescreens, will have so many tabs open that it is hard to find any given one. At 44 tabs on Google Chrome on a 1080p screen, the user can no longer see any text on the tabs. Long before this point (~20 tabs), the text is so short as to be unusable. Randall refers to this tendency to open many tabs without closing them in this comic. |
− | Many modern tabbed | + | Many modern tabbed browsers can remember what tabs were open upon closure (if this setting is on), and will reload the same tabs on startup. This will start any auto-playing videos (such as YouTube videos) which appear on any of the open pages. This situation can also occur during browsing when an auto-playing video does not begin playing until after a user has moved on to a new tab, when a page with a video refreshes in the background, or when a site with such a video automatically opens in a tab that does not become the active tab when it opens. |
− | This generally leads the user to clicking through all of the open tabs to try to find where the sound is coming from. This can be even more difficult if the video is not obvious and not centered on the screen of whatever tab it is playing in | + | This generally leads the user to clicking through all of the open tabs to try to find where the sound is coming from. This can be even more difficult if the video is not obvious and not centered on the screen of whatever tab it is playing in. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:I get most of my news from autoplaying videos in browser tabs I can't find. | :I get most of my news from autoplaying videos in browser tabs I can't find. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |