CenturyView was released today for the Insomniac Browser. Insomniac allows you to easily run 300 or more sessions of the same web site in one browser window. Now CenturyView allows you to see all of those tabs at once. It is the easiest way to manage hundreds of tabs. Watch the demo here:

The Insomniac Browser was created primarily for the purposes of running multiple sessions of the same web site at once and through a simple tabbed interface.

That means you can log into the same web site twice from one window and no one will ever know any different! There are many possible uses for this, but below we demonstrate a very simple one – logging into gmail with two accounts. Check it out, find your own uses for it, and tell us about it!

And here is a screencast of Insomniac running multiple sessions on Ticketmaster.

We always want to be able to test our browsers capabilities so on Saturday January 30, we ran an experiment. We wanted to see how many browsing sessions we could maintain on one computer without using a virtual desktop. We went to a web site where we knew pages would refresh every 15 seconds and where we knew we could see a countdown to test whether or not everything was running smoothly – a “virtual waiting room”, if you will. How did Insomniac Browser do in this virtual waiting room site?

Well, before we tell you, we want to point out that to really test our browser’s power, we intentionally used the worst computer we could find. It was an old HP Pavilion a710n that

• is 7 years old
• has about 80 programs installed including several databases and web servers
• weighs in at a mere 512 MB of memory
• has a puny single core 3100 AMD Athalon processor.

If you have purchased ANY computer, even bottom of the line, in the past 3-4 years, you could blow this thing out of the water. Especially if you have a multi-core processor.

So, with the deck stacked against us, we ran as many virtual waiting room tabs as we could. We had great performance through 100 tabs. Great performance through 200. We even had great performance through 300 tabs. It was right around the 300 tab mark where we started having some slow downs. But these only occurred while we were actually toggling back and forth between windows. When we just let the browser do its work, the 15 second countdowns were smooth and refreshed on beat.

So, exactly how many tabs can we run? It’s a bit like the Tootsie Pop question. We don’t know because we had so many windows getting us through the virtual waiting room that we didn’t bother trying to get over the 300 window mark. We estimate that you would be likely to get many more than 300 especially if you have a dual core processor. We have not done testing on a better machine, but 300 tabs sure beats any results we have been able to produce without the Insomniac Browser and without using virtual desk tops. If you like to use virtual desk tops, that’s ok too. Run Insomniac on all of them. If you run six, for example, you could easily run 1800 tabs at once.

Insomniac Browser is completely free, so you can test it as much as you want. Let us know how many windows you were able to run!