Tabbed Browsing IE7 I dont get it.

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So I finally clicked yes to install update of IE To 7. Looks fine even though i'm used to the look of 6 and i'm a creature of habit. Never bothered with firefox, dont see the point. I only have it installed to save pictures from the net that are blocked copyrighted with IE.

Well anyway I really dont see all the fuss with the tabbed browsing. Having the tabs at the top seems no more advantageous than having the open windows in the toolbar?

Sure you can open links in another tab but so what, that may have been usefull in dial up days but hardly saves much time with broadband.

What am i missing, whats the point. Seriously considering rolling back.
 
Just disable tabbed browsing in the options then.

Personally, I find it much better in so many ways. But everybody has different browsing habits. The fact that hoards of people wanted tabbed browsing and moved over to Firefox or Opera, meant that MS had to implement it in IE7 really - but they do put the option to disable it if you so wish.

I would favour disabling tabbed browsing over rolling back though, as IE7 is a lot better than IE6, both in terms of interface, and under the surface.
 
saves swapping windows all the time, saves wasting taskbar space, all round more efficient way of doing things. Don't care what anyone says either, Firefox is a far better browser. Mine is honed to perfection for me, does everything I want just the way I like it. The only thing IE has over it is slightly better loading times, but Minefield has that covered, blows everything else out of the water.
 
Just turn them off, better to stick with IE7 as it will get more support now.

I hate tabs anyway, always have them turned off in FF.
 
For me I prefer tabbed browsing mainly due to the middle click button, no more right click > open in new window. Only a small thing really, but it makes browsing the web so much easier.
 
Hmmm yeah I will turn the Tabs off. I suppose that would be better than rolling back. I was more curious to see if I was missing something or doing something wrong.

Seems not.

Taskbar space isn't really a problem with the dell 2405 so I guess I dont need tabs.

I never really used firefox because it's slower for me and I dont really buy the vunrability argument of IE. I have never yet been hit with anything in 6 odd years and neither have any of my friends that use sensible surfing practices and half decent software.

The only ones of my friends that have had issues have been clicking yes on suspect sites when they should be closing down ;)
 
I find tabs so much easier to deal with than multiple windows - they're all neatly in the same place, you don't have to worry about accidentally minimising one of them, if you have other applications open at once (or want a particular webpage in another window) then it's neat and tidy, and my style of surfing is to open lots of pages at once and then look at them later - having 20+ windows open is just awkward, whereas in IE7 it's straightforward. Using Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, middle mouse button, and Ctrl+tab or Ctrl+shift+tab to move forward through them is also really intuitive to me. All in all I couldn't be doing without tabbed browsing!
 
adblock plus and filterset g make firefox worth it alone... (no ads)

customizegoogle is pretty nifty too
 
Since everybody's browsing habits are different everyone will use the available features in different ways. My style relies on tabs so much I feel terribly handicapped when I have to use a browser that doesn't have them becasue switching between tabs is so much quicker than switching between windows, middle-clicking an inline hyperlink to read later ,etc. The same goes for my Imageshack extension for Ff and a host of other extentions and features. I was trying to explain this all to a friend and he didn't get it at all. He prefers to have everything in a different window and he manages them with the taskbar. He likes his style and I like mine. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. :)
 
clv101 said:
I generally have 20 tabs open all the time in Firefox, I almost use them like bookmarks!
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Same here.

I'm sure tabbed browsing makes my web browsing habits more efficient. The ability (certainly in Firefox, unsure about other browsers) to shuffle the order of tabs around, be able to close them with a single click (in the taskbar it's a case of right click -> close window), have different windows full of tabs for different tasks makes web browsing a pleasure. I genuinely don't know how I would survive without tabbed browsing, and my heart sinks everytime I come to use a system with nothing but Internet Explorer 6 installed :(

Then on OS X I don't even have a taskbar; just the dock (which I'm led to believe is a more semantic approach to an OS GUI, but that's neither here nor there). Tabbed browsing keeps the pagination within the application, which is far more universally compatible than having vast numbers of windows open :)

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