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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. Basic for customers? by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Troll

    I doubt very much they had to keep tabs basic to save customers from "becoming scared." Simply having two radio buttons in advanced preferences or something tucked away in several levels allowing people to enable more advanced features would have stopped anyone from 'being scared away' of the evil tabs.

    No, this is simply so the IE programmers didn't have to program anything too complex. They wanted to do as little work as possible, and then claim that they're doing it FOR the customers.

    I suppose Microsoft rapes me up the ass with their licence for my "protection" as well? To stop me from doing anything "dangerous" to a product I supposedly own.

  2. Tabs by tsa · · Score: 0, Troll

    I bet it won't be long before IE has other innovative features like plugins, and an ability to surf without leaving traces on your computer. This is a good thing, because it keeps the competition fierce. What other great features can we expect in Safari, Firefox and IE in the future? I'm looking forward to them!

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  3. Anyone else not care? by Tetsugaku-San · · Score: 0, Troll

    or is it just me? I don't use tabs, never have never will, well unless I'm working on a 800X600 machine maybe :) Honestly who really cares? It's a tiny tiny funtion that makes no difference to your daily browse considering you can get all progs of the same type to roll up into a single taskbar tab :)

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  4. Wine by datadriven · · Score: 0, Troll

    However it will not run on wine, most likely. So why should I care?

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