# Does anyone other than me hate tabbed browsing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 3, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285 "2004-10-03T04:09:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/41 "2004-10-04T12:56:48Z")
> [@Monocracy](#): > > Plus, with NetCaptor, the pages you open will open in the background, not the foreground like IE. I can go through an SDMB forum and click on the threads in one fell swoop, rather than having to bring the main page back to the foreground after each click. Additionally, not only does IE open in the foreground when you open a new page, it pops back to the foreground when the page actually loads. Annoying! The pages opening in the background is one of my favorite reasons for loving tabbed browsing of Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/42 "2004-10-04T13:55:40Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > No, never mind that. Try [this extension](http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/tbe) instead. Ok. Like I said, I already knew about this extention, but I hadn’t downloaded it. Thanks to this thread, I finally did. I’m a convert! 😃 It **isn’t** a whole new set of conventions to learn. Instead, everything works almost exactly the way I think it **ought** to work intuitively! Granted, if I hadn’t gotten used to tabbed browsing first, I would have been bewildered by the options, because I wouldn’t have known yet what I expected the tabs to do, but as it is, it took literally seconds (ok, a few hundred seconds) to set up the options just the way it makes sense to me. I feel as if I’ve been browsing in darkness, and suddenly there is light! I want to spread the word. Come! Join us! Let us link webpages and join together in singing URL 167.206.76.23! (Stay away from those people with the mouse gestures, though. They’re a little too _enthusiastic_. I suppose its possible the Web comes to them that way, but it looks like mumbo jumbo to me.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/43 "2004-10-04T15:21:34Z")
I downloaded Firefox last Friday and finally got the chance to install it last night. I am loving the tabbed browsing. Otherwise it doesn’t seem much different but I really, really, really like the tabs. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/44 "2004-10-04T18:45:09Z")
Tabs are heaven if you regularly need to reference multiple sites all at once, e.g. for those who don’t know, you can bookmark an entire tab collection. Example, “Crap, I’ve got to leave the computer and I’ve just opened 57 really interesting threads that I’d love to read later _click_ all done!” I find it invaluable for computing documentation and support boards, e.g. I can bookmark at once all sites dealing with Linux hardware compatablilty instead of having to open them all one-by-one to find what I’m looking for. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/45 "2004-10-04T23:03:33Z")
I’m a Safari user (formerly a netscape user) and I love tabbed browsing… ESPECIALLY in OSX. I hate the dock. I do love Expose, but who needs it when you’ve got tabs? It took me like, ten minutes to get used to tabbed browsing. Maybe Roland is just a little… slower… than we tab users. 😃 Of course I’m kidding, Roland. We just surf differently. What’s with all the hating? ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285/46 "2004-10-05T00:08:41Z")
I’m an Opera user. I don’t actually use the tabs, per se, but I do use the window bar on the left corner of the screen. It’s more convient to me than tabs. By the way, is there a quick keystroke to switch between pages? Like Alt+Tab, only for pages? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-other-than-me-hate-tabbed-browsing/267285.md?page=2)