[quote=Shienvien]
I am in an advanced RP which has lasted for years, and during that time over quarter hundred (!) players have come and gone over time - therefore, a character sheets tab would soon be a mess of mostly inactive characters. Scratch it, every successful RP I have been in has had minimum thrice as many entries as there have ended up being current players. On one hand, those temporal CS can be useful for reference when you speak of dead/astray characters ICly ... but at other times they are clutter. I imagine it would be even worse for successful Casual roleplays...And linking has worked perfectly for RPs I am in. You've nice little list in one post, and if you want to see info about a character, you just click a name in said list...
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That relies on the GM keeping the list up to date/accurate. 

Also, consistency. Consistency is nice. And Ctrl+f is perfectly workable if you know what you're looking for and don't have much to search.