With Shareaza (v.2.7.10.2) the upper limit for the number of loaded user browsing lists is 50 (the default being a measly 10). I often struggle to stay below that limit (as I learned the hard way that going beyond would completely wipe the first user browsing tabs, keeping only the last 50 with the maximum setting, and as little as 10 with the default setting, and also randomly wipe some or all of the search tabs for no sound reason at all), and it's not made easier by the fact that those damn tabs aren't even numbered, and their width varies according to their number, and their name stops being visible long before the limit has been reached... (At some point I was quite pathetically trying to check the number of tabs with markers on a plain text file used as a makeshift “ruler”, then gave up as it only kinda works if the total number of tabs stays exactly the same. Then I started to tediously write down which user tabs are still open and which ones I removed, so I could quickly see if there are 49, in which case I can safely open another one, or 50 already, in which case I have to spend half an hour pondering which one has to go to make room — at which point the user I wanted to browse may no longer be available...)
With eMule, there's virtually no limit to the number of tabs, and their width doesn't have to be shrunk to an absurdly tiny icon, as there are little arrows on the sides allowing to move to the right side or the left side of the row, just like on a Web browser.
This is even more of an issue considering that Shareaza doesn't have any feature to conveniently memorize specific users and reload their shared files lists whenever they're available, as eMule allows with its “friends” list.
I must add that Shareaza does have a great advantage over eMule here, for it stores the search and user browsing tabs right away, whereas eMule stores them only when properly shutting down (which in my case almost never happens as I have an ongoing issue of very frequent BSODs so I end up losing eMule's new tabs almost every session).
With Shareaza (v.2.7.10.2) the upper limit for the number of loaded user browsing lists is 50 (the default being a measly 10). I often struggle to stay below that limit (as I learned the hard way that going beyond would completely wipe the first user browsing tabs, keeping only the last 50 with the maximum setting, and as little as 10 with the default setting, and also randomly wipe some or all of the search tabs for no sound reason at all), and it's not made easier by the fact that those damn tabs aren't even numbered, and their width varies according to their number, and their name stops being visible long before the limit has been reached... (At some point I was quite pathetically trying to check the number of tabs with markers on a plain text file used as a makeshift “ruler”, then gave up as it only kinda works if the total number of tabs stays exactly the same. Then I started to tediously write down which user tabs are still open and which ones I removed, so I could quickly see if there are 49, in which case I can safely open another one, or 50 already, in which case I have to spend half an hour pondering which one has to go to make room — at which point the user I wanted to browse may no longer be available...) With eMule, there's virtually no limit to the number of tabs, and their width doesn't have to be shrunk to an absurdly tiny icon, as there are little arrows on the sides allowing to move to the right side or the left side of the row, just like on a Web browser. This is even more of an issue considering that Shareaza doesn't have any feature to conveniently memorize specific users and reload their shared files lists whenever they're available, as eMule allows with its “friends” list.
I must add that Shareaza does have a great advantage over eMule here, for it stores the search and user browsing tabs right away, whereas eMule stores them only when properly shutting down (which in my case almost never happens as I have an ongoing issue of very frequent BSODs so I end up losing eMule's new tabs almost every session).