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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werewolf

on Jun 11, 2005

Indeed clwoods, I can completely agree with you about that (not everyone likes peanut butter and banana sandwiches either

). I was just wondering what the specific reasons for not liking tabs are.

_02

on Jun 11, 2005

). I was just wondering what the specific reasons for not liking tabs are.

I was not directing that comment at you, werewolf, or any one person. Besides you were just asking a question. And btw, I like peanut butter and banana sandwiches!

Boss019

on Jun 11, 2005

I haven't tried the tabs yet but I'll take the ten dollars from Master Apprentice causticFX

Phantom Puppet

on Jun 13, 2005

The 'simple' part does stand out quite a bit at the moment .I just hope they'll improve it soon - Firefox, at the moment (at least), kicks its ass with tabbed browsing.

Kevin_C

on Jun 14, 2005

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

Probably because MS hasn't made a significant update to IE in quite some time. As was mentioned in the original post, this isn't really adding Tabbed browsing to IE, it's more like a hack to add a feature that lots of people probably want until MS is able to get IE7 out the door. Myself, I doubt IE7 will be able to quench my tabbed browsing needs as I have found everything I need in FF with Tabbed Browsing Extensions..

hawk_196

on Jun 15, 2005

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser will not have to wait until IE7 to experience tabbed browsing.

Umm, they still don't have to. FF does happen to be free and freely available.

Besides, I don't think I would trust a rushed and retro-fitted "extension" to add tabbed browsing to an already unreliable browser.

bmetelsky

on Jun 15, 2005

It's absolute crap. In addition to tabs, the bar add-on pushes search and other crud that I certainly don't want or need.

Tarkus

on Jun 15, 2005

It's crap compared to other tabbed browsers, but if you're one of these people who just absolutely has to use IE, or if you have a program that loads IE, it's better than nothing.

You can get rid of most of the default long toolbar, and then move what's left elsewhere, so it doesn't take up an entire row. I have mine set up where the menubar, buttons, toolbars, etc. only takes up one row. And then the tabs take up a second row.

Judging from the IE7 development blog, I think that will be much, much better. And I think it's supposed to go into beta this summer sometime.

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Emily

on Jun 30, 2005

There are better solutions than this.

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