Rlyss

I didn't want to start a new thread on this because it's just a small question:

This is the first thread thread I've ever seen that isn't dominated by a circle jerk to the chant of "Tabbed browsing, tabbed browsing, tabbed browsing!" Almost every time I hear a mention of Firefox somebody mentions tabbed browsing and it's like blood in a piranha tank, but can somebody here explain why tabbed browsing is good?

Everyone says that Firefox is good because it has tabbed browsing, but I haven't been able to work out why tabbed browsing is good. Does it save memory somehow?

I use both IE and Firefox (Firefox only because it works with GMail and I can increase font size more than IE) but IE lets you open up different windows for different pages, lets them load in the background while you read one page (Right click - open in new window), all that stuff.

I'm not trying to say IE is better, I'm just having trouble working out what is so special about this tabbed browsing business, and how that differs from IE's windows.

jonjon42

right click in firefox and open link in new tab...
keep reading what you are reading what you are reading while the pr0n page loads..
when loading is finished switch tabs to pr0n page and enjoy..

firefox loads tabs the backround....
also less desktop clutter...I can't stand desktop clutter.

once you get used to it...you'll see the light of tabbed browsing

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Wingless

Tabbed browsing is all about convenience and "less-is-better". I can have one browser open with five webpages, as opposed to five browsers and five webpages.

The only problem with tabbed browsing I've found was the (obvious?) slowdown when you have many (10+ tabs) in one browser. I was doing a research paper and I had one FFx window with 10 tabs, and another with 5 tabs. (Overkill yes, but I needed the research!)

Another convenient thing about tabbed browsing I've found is when you close the browser, hell, you're closing down all the tabs simultaneously. I can have two windows open with different subject matter in each one (say, porn and business) and when someone walks by, one click and the porn is gone!

Tabbed browsing, however, has become less of a *major* feature of Firefox. In the past few weeks it's been more about the spyware-free aspect of it.

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Redlemon

Combining the tabs with some extensions is where it is at. For instance, I use Linky, which can open each image link into a separate tab in one shot. MiniT allows me to use the scrollmouse to switch between tabs when my mouse is hovered on the tab bar, and also changes where new tabs open (next to the current tab? at the end of the tabs?). Undoclosetab does just what you would expect.

Also, if you need to alt-tab away from your browser quickly, you won't end up on another browser window.

But Find-as-you-Type is even more useful than tabbed windows. It is the feature I miss most when I have to use IE or Safari.

DarkPho

I don't use tabs at all, but i am using Firefox. The main feature that i like in some browsers are Mouse Gestures. So useful, testing out some extensions for firefox atm.