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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. Scared? by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Average IE User:

    "My God! TABS! Eeeek!"
    (runs away from computer)

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    1. Re:Scared? by Aero · · Score: 5, Funny

      Of course tabs are scary. Look at which browsers use tabs:

      Mozilla -- Symbolized by a big red carnivorous lizard. Large carnivores are scary, and red things scream "DANGER!".
      Firefox -- Symbolized by...a burning fox. Burning things are scary.
      Opera -- Opera scares a lot of people, and many of those who aren't scared outright just plain don't understand it.

      And then there's IE. Either a big blue E or a harmless little butterfly. Non-threatening. But they're doing some eeeeevil genetic manipulation and taking something out of those scaaaaaary browsers to put into our harmless little IE!

      Of course it'll scare people.

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    2. Re:Scared? by DenDave · · Score: 4, Funny

      And in other news... Longhorn will have a file system, we don't know what exactly or when but we are sure it will have one....

      sorta sounds like...

      this old joke

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    3. Re:Scared? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 5, Funny

      They don't scream "Eeeek". They scream "Ieeeee"!

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    4. Re:Scared? by mo^ · · Score: 3, Funny

      I've had some great blue E's in my life ya know.... i can certainly see the attraction....

      though i must say most nights with blue e's were finshed in style in the company of a fox and firing up a doobie .....

      (warning... some poetic license/geek fantasy may have slipped into the latter stages of this)

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    5. Re:Scared? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 3, Funny

      He's a power freaking IE user.
      He doesn't need no ctrl-tab.

      Yes, mods, that's a flame... But at the same time it's true.

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    6. Re:Scared? by ASkGNet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, it switches between open tabs.

      Would you like cheese with that whine?

    7. Re:Scared? by generic-man · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, I downloaded and installed a few programs that supplement my conventional MSN search results with leveraged search results from some of the leading search engines out there.

      I also click on a few pop-up ads a day, just to keep my favorite web sites going. I wouldn't want to be stealing web content, now would I?

      You want to know what's weird? I usually get up to 25 browser windows just by going to msn.com -- even when I'm not connected to the Internet!

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    8. Re:Scared? by SamSim · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps they've fixed this since Win98 which is what I'm using, but I find windows in the Alt+Tab list are ordered by how recently they were used, so you'd get something more like:

      Alt+Tab Excel - no.
      Alt+Tab Firefox - no.
      Alt+Tab Excel again - no.
      Alt+Tab Firefox again - no.
      Alt+Tab Excel again - no.
      Alt+Tab Firefox again - no.
      ...

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  2. I am just so floored... by Pao|o · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pop up blocking, tabbed browsing and Anti-virus software. What will MS think off next?

    1. Re:I am just so floored... by Joseph+Vigneau · · Score: 4, Funny
      Not sure.. Let's see:
      • RSS aggregator
      • Bookmark search (probably not 'til Longhorn)
      • Privacy Mode^W^W (I don't expect MS to copy this one)
      And maybe:
      • Better extension support
      • Better theme support

      MS innovation, at it's best!

      Opera fans can chime in here too, if they want.

    2. Re:I am just so floored... by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just to nitpick, Netscape didn't stagnate, version 4 just sucked.

    3. Re:I am just so floored... by hankaholic · · Score: 5, Funny
      Opera fans can chime in here too, if they want.

      I'd assumed that chiming in when browsers are mentioned was part of Opera's EULA.
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  3. Somewhere in the future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, look! This funny browser has tabs, just like in Internet Explorer!

  4. The real question by ceeam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it support CSS1? Is CSS2 support scheduled for IE8.0 or should we expect that later?

  5. Re:Allow users to uninstall and reinstall as neede by jyoull · · Score: 5, Funny

    The reason its 'part of the OS' is that the back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel) to connect to the internet. 'Remove' IE (and I guess you don't mean remove 'just the GUI') would cripple a great many programs out there.

    Why, back where I come from, we used to call that a "library" and it wasn't something we'd keep all warm and idling and share-y. Back in the day, every app could load up its own copy - they ain't so darned big that it matters a whole lot - and everyone goes away happy. This whole IE approach of tryin' to lash application code to this newfangled live executing library-like-but-not code reminds me of the time Poppa Burke was down at the mill and thought we oughta try to power the grinders from the engine on that old junk Chevy he kept settin' out around back. Sure it looked like a good idea, but when he got outta the hospital later that year, he admitted it didn't make no more sense than what yer talkin' about with this IE and "helper objects" and "registry" and stuff. Me? I'm a simple kind a feller and I'll settle for muh libraries the old fashioned way, thank you very much.

  6. Now that THAT'S out of the way... by bujoojoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they'll starting working on standards compliance.

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  7. That was System Restore by steve_l · · Score: 3, Funny

    The 'system restore' feature of windows was detecting that MS Messenger was missing, and 'fixing it'. As only an incompetent fool would want to delete msn messenger.

    I think if you turned off system restore you could delete that and the pinball game.

    Just be glad you werent auto-reported to the department of homeland security for being subversive.