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IE7 Will Have Tabbed Browsing

Posted by timothy on from the sir-your-numbers-are-slipping dept.

loconet writes that early yesterday morning, "Dean Hachamovitch, IE product unit manager, confirmed that IE7, like Opera and Firefox first did years ago, will have tabbed browsing as one of its new features. Asa Dotzler,from Mozilla, points out that Dean reminds IE users who have not upgraded to XP that tabbed browsing can be added to IE through 3rd-party add-ons." cryptoz adds a link to this InformationWeek story which says that the tabs will be very "'basic' due to fears from Microsoft that tabbed browsing might scare off too many users. The feature is only being included because IE is slipping in the browser share market."

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  1. Re:Am I the only person in the world who..... by Festering+Leper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *this is not a flame... really! if anyone cares to provide serious answers to anything below i'd be grateful*

    i don't understand what it is about tabbed browsing that people *like*?

    what happens in tabbed browsing when a page tries to force your browser to resize? do all your tabs resize? does it un-maximize all the windows because all mdi windows obey the maximize preference of the one you clicked on?

    i've noticed on firefox that even if you disable tabbing the "open in new tab" is still taking up an option in your right-click and there's now a blank area near the toolbar where the tabs used to be and now it's just taking up space and does nothing. am i the only one who thinks this is wasted space?

    how long is it going to be before we start seeing slashdot stories about cross-tab security problems in ie? :)

    am i the only one who opens up multiple browsers (each in their own memory space) on purpose?

    am i the only one who uses the middle-click to (gasp) smooth scroll in windows? and who doesn't care for "other applications" to hijack os-wide mouse preferences?

    am i the only one here who blocks malicious or annoying web content before the browser has the chance the parse it so browser pop-up blockers etc. don't end up doing anything anyway?

    will non-ie browsers ever be able to come close to ie's performance in the area of screen writes and lower cpu usage when scrolling? (i have a system with reasonable specs amd64, geforce4, 2gigs ram but this is very noticeable)

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  2. Removing IE is as easy as one, two, Ubuntu! by mathmatt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Download Ubuntu Linux
    2. Burn to CD
    3. Boot from CD
    4. Install over Windows

    For some reason this completely removed IE from my computer!

    Note: This procedure may also change your desktop background. You have been warned!