I have dual screens with track view on one and console view/popups on the other.
 

One technique I find useful when mixing with the Console View is to change the MIDI tracks to narrow view, or hide them entirely. By the time mixing rolls around, the MIDI stuff is pretty much nailed anyway.
 
Also Console View is great for impressing people if you open all the ProChannel modules via Quick Grouping 

Anderton
or hide them entirely

Yep, this is exactly what I do. Console View in my setup only shows audio tracks...

For me the final stage before mixing is to remove all the MIDI tracks. Audio tracks only, and only the tracks that I know I intend to use or are likely to use - so I strip out anything I think isn't going to be needed. This might act as a constraint, but some constraints can be very useful if they help remove indecision. At least I think they can :-)

Before I had two screens I normally had console view sitting in the dock occupying around a third of the screen height (pan knobs downwards if that makes sense). Now I use one screen for each. I don't like mixing without being able to see at least some tracks as I use clip colours to identify sections and seeing them is how I can be sure of where I am in the arrangement. The navigator kind of does the same thing and pre-dock I used it a lot.

Now I mix with tracks in top screen, console in bottom. I can work with just track view but don't like to. I can switch between console and track "mind states" without a problem and console view can show more tracks/busses than track view for a given screen size.

It might just be habit learned when DAWs barely existed of course, but I find console view very useful indeed for fader and pan riding and simply a logical way to do some things quickly and easily.

Add me to the roster of those who never use the console view. The left monitor is always in track view, the right is for effects, soft synths and the PRV.

bitflipper
Add me to the roster of those who never use the console view. The left monitor is always in track view, the right is for effects, soft synths and the PRV.

Ditto. All in the dock too. The only difference for me is the track view spread across two displays with the dock up only when I need it (which is quite often I suppose)

I think both are quite useful. But I cannot imagine NOT using Console View. That would take a lot of fun out of it for me :-) But I did come out of analog.
 
On another note, virtually every person that comes over to my "studio" marvels at Console View spread over two 24" monitors. "Wow...do you know what all that stuff does?" 

I have console view on my right monitor. Left monitor is track view and all the other stuff.
 
 

I use the console view purely for the nostalgia.

Grizzlylip
I use the console view purely for the nostalgia.

Winner!