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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. Love the spin by JebusIsLord · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah the old Slashdot spin machine... actually if you read the IE Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx the developers are clear that they made the WRONG decision in avoiding tabs the first time, and the tabs will be basic only at the time of beta, but they will be adding more features afterwards.

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  2. Re:Allow users to uninstall and reinstall as neede by darkonc · · Score: 5, Informative

    When MS came out with the 'un-removable' IE4, my roommate discovered that if you used the IE3 uninstaller on IE4, it uninstalled cleanly...
    Yep... technical necessity.....

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  3. Re:Scared? by hostyle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox - Ctrl Tab

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  4. Re:Scared? by trezor · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I have 20 Internet Explorer windows open, I can navigate between them using the Taskbar's "(20) Internet Explorer" collapsed button or with the ALT-TAB window switcher.

    Ever heard of CTRL-TAB? for switching windows inside a browser? Or any other standard-compliant application for that matter.

    Personally I prefer to be able to switch to another application when using ALT-TAB without having to go trough my 20 tabs before I get the app I want. But that may just be me. And my window-management is not thrown off in any way. On the contrary tabbed browsing has enhanched it.

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  5. Re:Scared? by justforaday · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's why I like how OS X handles this. Cmd-Tab to switch apps, Cmd-` to switch between windows within an app.

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