How manye can you have open in Safari?

…?

One would assume how many ‘windows’ or ‘instances’ and it probably depends on how much virtual memory or other resources you have available.

Does this question imply that you’re not able to open enough or are getting an error message ‘To manye open’?

I somehow forgot to say i was talking about tabs.
I’m really sorry. We managed to get 1169.
Yes, we are bored at work.

In that case, yes, it’s most likely a memory limit. Watch your virtual memory and see if the process for safari hits a certain size consistently. Start other applications to consume memory and see if the 1169 drops to a lower number.

doesn’t seem boring to me

Well, we didn’t reach the limit, we just had to use the computer :)
I was wondering if there was a limit or if it just stops when it’s out of memory.

Just a guess, but these things usually go in terms of powers of 2.

So, if you had unlimited memory, my guess is Safari would crap out when you have something like 2,048, or 4,096, or 8,192, or 16,384, ..., .... number of windows open.

It will stop, one way or another. Not sure how OS X behaves but once in Windows I got my enter key stuck and launched some 500 odd instances of IE before I got it unstuck. The entire computer came to a grinding halt and I could not even shutdown. Had to power it off.