Tabbed browsing

[wherzwaldo]

What's the point?

I'm not trying to talk ****, I'm asking a serious question. What's so good about it? The only advantage I can think of is having multiple pages open in only one window, but that's not always a good thing. Also makes it difficult to switch directly to a certain page from another program. I don't see why anyone would find it useful.

 

[Woland]

You can reload five forums on Hornfans simultaneously.

 

[TexasOwnzYou]

Memory!

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

TOY,

Why haven't you moved to Maxthon yet?

I also use Firefox, but I can't get it to do enough of what Maxthon does. Its tab feature is pretty weak, and the webpage rendering/loading is slow and clumsy by comparison.

 

[dustin_c1]

TexasOwnzYou,

You can open multiple windows in IE while still having only one IE process.

In fact, as an experiment, I opened up 25 windows in IE and 25 tabs in Firefox. Firefox used 100 megs of memory compared to IE's 80.

I don't get the tabbed browsing craze. It's nice, but it isn't a killer feature. I find that if you have a bunch of windows open, it is much easier to click on a taskbar button than to use a tab. Clicking on a tasbar button will bring up a popup with more desriptive names than can fit on a tab. Past a certain point, it gets difficult to manage tabs on Firefox just as it can get difficult managing a large number text files with tabbed text editors.

 

[Agent007]

Double Post.

 

[Agent007]

I'm not familiar with Maxthon, but tabbed browsing in Firefox is extremely amazing if you have Mouse Gestures (All in One Gestures) installed.

 

[TexasOwnzYou]

dustin_c1, how do open multiple windows with one process?


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i am also running a program called "Stroke it" which handles the mouse gestures for me.

 

[linux]

Tab browsing is a love it with a passion or feel it is irrelevant, the reason why it is great is screen real estate, the few unfortunate times I am thrusted into windows I notice that the taskbar has little room for so many windows, and the expanse feature is two clicks away. While with tab browsing things look clearer and you can easily spot the website you are using just by looking at the icon header

this is always hornfans for example.

Lastly as already alluded you can manipulate the tabs to perform reloads and other operations, lastly I do not use a taskbar at home so it would be quite annoying.

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

Agent,

Maxthon is the latest version of MyIE2.

 

[dustin_c1]

Pop-up windows do it by default.
File->New Window
Ctrl+N
Right click on a link and choose "Open in New Window"

Pretty much the only way not to open a new window using the same instance is the way you are doing it.

 

[Black Scholes]

It's one of my favorite things about Firefox so far.

 

[Bob Wills]

After the invention of tabbed browsing, there was no longer a good reason to leave the house.