Good morning.

I'm not sure to really understand the difference between layers and tabs. Can somebody please deliver a shine of light over this dark and obscure subject?

Well, as far as I understand it, a Tabbed Document Interface (TDI, Tabs) is usually seen as a variation of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI).

K-Meleon up to version 1.1 has a Single Document Interface (SDI). With the Layered Windows Plugin, several windows can be grouped together and are then layered above each other (except the layers bar and the displayed document, the window properties are all equal). In this sense, Layers are a simulation of a TDI for a SDI.

See also here.

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When you use a lot of opened sites in layers ... - it take more system resources, instead of tabs.

so if i plan on using a lot of opened sites in tabs (firefox) or layers (k-meleon), which one will use less resources?

in general i always have a bunch of tabs/layers open instead of multiple windows.

It looks something like that.. from much to less resources (about 40 tabs):
firefox(because of heavy xul interface), k-meleon(layers), k-meleon(tabs) - perhaps in future.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/27/2007 09:02AM by D555.