You’ve all missed the most important advantage to tabbed browsing.
When you are Doping at work, and the boss walks by… you only have to close one window!
What, exactly, do you mean by this?
Back in the old, slow SMDB days I got used to opening all the threads I wanted to read at once in separate windows. Tabbed browsing is a godsend. And opening all my webcomics & blogs in tabs with one click rocks.
Tabbed Browsing isn’t much to speak of until you add Mouse Gestures. But then, it’s fricking nirvana.
Seriously, I didn’t install the mouse gestures at first because I thought that it would be a gimmicky extension I’d never really use. Wrong. The gestures have the perfect tolerance – I just have to flick my wrist and it’s done. I move from tab to tab, back, forward, reload, stop, move up in domain, open new tab, open new window, close current tab,etc…
It’s ideal for using the SD. I have all the forums in a folder on my link bar and just middle click the folder to open up all the forums in tabs. The as I read the forums, I just middle click on any threads I want to read. I flick a little L with my wrist and i kill the tab to bring up the next one.
Another Firefox user checking in. I didn’t particularly like tabbed browsing at first but I’ve realized its usefulness in simply managing all the crap I have open at once. I love being able to close down Firefox and --boom-- all my browse windows close too.
Haven’t used mouse gestures yet. I’ll have to check into that. However, I have gotten used the keyboard shortcuts and can now manipulate tabs with ease. Give it some time, Roland, and you’ll come over to our side. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
I don’t like tabbed browsing. Especially when I hit close all instead of close one, which I do a lot. Then I have to try to remember what I had opened and was using.
I don’t hate tabbed browsing, that’d be kind of pathetic, but I find it kind of pointless and never use it. I’ve tried to get used to it since so many people sing its praises, but I’ve never managed to get to like it.
The problem with Maxthon is that it is still based on top of IE, which means you still bring along all the problems IE has - security issues, lack of proper .png support, CSS & CSS2 incompatibility, and you are stuck with IE’s cruddy rendering engine, which is slower and causes more errors when visiting webpages than Firefox these days.
I like Tabbed Browsing, but I think I’m missing the big difference between tabbed and window based browsing? To me, they’re basically the same concept. I admit I still try to Alt-Tab between tabs, but I really like the feature in Opera that lets me change them using the “right click and roll” feature of my scrollwheel.
Honestly, I’m just confused as to the big difference.
I love tabbed browsing, but i use NetCaptor, which allows you to keep your tabs at the bottom of the screen, right above the task bar. The organization of tabs is a whole lot easier than the chaos of the task bar.
I usually have about a half dozen programs open at once, so back when i used IE, those programs would get lost in the flood of IE windows. Now, i can easily open two NetCaptors, without cluttering my task bar. I usually use one for porn and one for the sdmb, so the option of seeing a jiggling boob or an opinionated boob is only a click away.
And i haven’t figured out how to organize the programs on my task bar, if it’s possible at all, so programs are arranged in the order that i open them. But with NetCaptor, arranging tabs is as easy as clicking and dragging, so i know where everything is.
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!
There are other features that i like, but i won’t go into them all. Basically, tabs give ME the control when i’m browsing the web, and that’s how i like it.
I just tried Firefox last week. I would like nothing better than for it to light up my life and show the way for the entire world thumb its nose at MS and toss IE. But I have gone back to IE, at least for now; I don’t see what the fuss is all about.
I had “tabbed” browsing in IE all along; the tabs are the bottom of the window. Moving the effective tab row to the top does nothing for me. Sure, IE’s “tabs” redraw more of the screen, but so what?
And I don’t think Firefox renders HTML any faster than IE, at least the sites I visit. It might actually be slower for very large tables, like geneological lists on a single page. And it looks a little jerkier.
Firefox takes up less HD room, that’s nice. I’ll try it some more. Real Soon Now.
I wanted the tabs at the bottom. I couldn’t find a way to do it. I grumbled. Then there was something else I wanted to do (can’t remember what it was now) and it also wouldn’t do it. So I gave up and went back to Maxthon.
True. Which, if that is your issue with IE, is fair enough for not wanting to use it. But I have never really had a problem with that, so it works for me.
Until now, when XP SP2 started enforcing WMP9 to play all my streaming video, which I can’t seem to stop it from doing.
No, never mind that. Try this extension instead.
I generally do a combination of tabbed and untabbed browsing. Often, my browsing will involve multiple subject areas or websites, and a tend to use a single window, with tabs, for each category.
So, for example, for SDMB i might have a single window open, containing about 6 or 7 tabs. And then, for my school research, i’ll have another window open with maybe four or five tabs. etc.
I love it.
What the hell - I have to write the software myself? What sort of crazy mixed up world is this?
Heh. You non-hackers burn my cheese!
No, seriously, see my next post. There’s an easy to use extension that lets you customize many aspects of tabbed browsing. In fact, almost anything you could want to do with Firefox either has an extension to do it, or you can do some stylesheet editing.
Don’t worry: MSIE will eventually catch up to the real world.
I like tabbed browing because I can group pages together - this window has all the fic I’m reading, this window has my LJ, this window is the SDMB. Of course, there are still quite a few other things I dislike about Firefox, but I won’t go into them here.
I often have different sorts of window open. If I have half a dozen SDMB threads, half a dozen HTML/PHP reference sites, one website I’ve just written and am testing, and an internet banking window, it REALLY SUCKS to have to click on the taskbar 15 times to find the bank one. I agree if the taskbar tabs could be controlled properly – able to group several into one based on content rather than title, able to drag from one group to another, able to drag to change the order – I’d be happy, but currently you just can’t, so having four options, two of which are a tabbed browser, is the way it works for me.