IE6 gets tabbed browsing

Published on June 10, 2005 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser will not have to wait until IE7 to experience tabbed browsing. MSN has shipped a new build of its MSN Search Toolbar that adds basic tabbed browsing support to IE6. But the feature is not fully integrated into the browser, instead relying on the toolbar to create tabs.

Tabbed browsing capabilities first appeared in beta releases of the MSN Search Toolbar, but were stricken from the final 2.0 build that was released last month.

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kona0197

on Jun 10, 2005

Interesting - but I really don't like tabbed browsing. I guess I'll keep my IE6 the way it is.

ActionJay

on Jun 10, 2005

Tabs are just part of the solution. What I want to see is MDI and Mouse Gestures

iTZKooPA

on Jun 10, 2005

Tabbed browsing is the greatest invention since browsing...Its like crack, honest.

Tarkus

on Jun 10, 2005

Tabbed browsing is the greatest invention since browsing...Its like crack, honest.

I'm not qualified to make that comparison

, but I do agree with the first part of your statement.

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Yarlen

on Jun 10, 2005

Sign of the times that what used to be "better than sliced bread" is now "like crack."

kona0197

on Jun 10, 2005

Tabbed browsing is the greatest invention since browsing...Its like crack, honest.

I disagree. Tabbed browsing is very annoying to me. Wouldn't know about the crack part though...

Andrew Powell

on Jun 10, 2005

I agree with kona. I'll continue using IE, but I'll likely disable the tabbed browsing.

Koasati

on Jun 10, 2005

Interesting - but I really don't like tabbed browsing. I guess I'll keep my IE6 the way it is.

As soon as I read the thread title, I knew I'd find a comment from you saying how you don't like tabs.......... Don't use them. There's really no need to tell us everytime someone mentions it.

Matchbook

on Jun 10, 2005

^-- +1

mitchec

on Jun 10, 2005

This is typical of Microsoft. Rather than just giving you what you want. ie Tabs, they throw in a load of other junk as well. I Think I'll be staying with Firefox.

Mitchec

werewolf

on Jun 10, 2005

I'm not starting anything here, I'm truly curious. I use tabs in Firefox and I think they are an excellent idea. I can have one window open, but have several web pages going at the same time. So my question is: Why, specifically don't you like tabs in your browser?

Bichur

on Jun 10, 2005

Tabbed browsing rocks.

Matchbook

on Jun 11, 2005

I second werewolf's curiosity. Without an explanation it sounds the same as hearing "I hate it when someone gives me ten dollars out of the blue!!!"

_02

on Jun 11, 2005

I wonder if we could all agree that everyone has different tastes in browsers, and that it is okay? To each his own.

dark eclipse

on Jun 11, 2005

I wonder why Internet Explorer is barely coming out with tabbed browsing now when such thing already existed?

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