Just this moment i'm once again in a situation where i will have to delete about approx. 2x240 pages out more than 1000 (for www2.europarl.eu.int.) Opening in extra tabs actually is what i am used to do, and around 100 tabs should be no problem for galeon (my topscore was 254 so far), but it takes minimum 2 seconds for each to load and render, and over 100 tabs it slows down, and with javascript and animated GIFs and flashs even went nirvana occasionally.
So i have to spend more than 7 minutes on a task that i wish to be done in half a minute. I really don't want to be fussy. It's just, i try to read at least 50 pages a day, sometimes much more, and most are english where i'm a foreigner, and loosing seconds evrywhere sums up. It just doesn't feel good. It's a typical case. EU Parliament has modified the Rules of Procedure two times between May and July, so now there are 3 differing sets of them in the cache, which makes automatic keyword search unreliable, and that's a serious problem. Of course this problem results from my wish, the EU stuff should expire after 360 days only, for two reasons: First, it easily could take that time until i return to a bookmarked link. Often it's stuff which would not change in content (say, reports) or where i also would be interested in what exactly did change (eg, information about lobbying groups), so i read the cached version, and then do update. Second, wwwoffle still serves faster than my slow link, with a fast HD and the selective blocking features (which are most useful on newsletters). It's especially faster serving several pages at once (eg, opening a bookmark subfolder in tabs). A selective level expiring and deleting (on subdomains) would of course be the greatest thing, but i wouldn't ask you for that, Andrew. Then you can say, the problem would be solved more basically with fast bandwith, and actually, this is in the pipe. But then i wouldn't need wwwoffle that much at all, that is, mainly for the blocking filter and archive features. And for the time indexes. And the selective cache views. oh, and for the html modification. And for the ordering. And...shit. I already can't imagine to live without it :) cu, micha.
