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To: William Creel

Can you (or anybody) explain the use of tabs versus just having more than one broswer open? In effect, having, e.g., five IE browsers open shows "tabs" representing each browser in IE6, although this is not true "tabs" but just looks like a tab when the browser is minimized.

What is a "tab", and what advantage is there to "tabs" in IE7 vs 6? I assume there is just one open browser with "tabs" but I do not see the difference.


216 posted on 08/27/2005 3:41:27 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

It basically just saves space on the toolbar.

In Mozilla you can even bookmark a group of tabs. For example when you click to open FR you could have separate tabs for "Latest Comment", "Latest Articles" and "My Comments" open all at once.


218 posted on 08/27/2005 3:47:32 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 51-58)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
Can you (or anybody) explain the use of tabs versus just having more than one broswer open? In effect, having, e.g., five IE browsers open shows "tabs" representing each browser in IE6, although this is not true "tabs" but just looks like a tab when the browser is minimized.

For me its about keeping th eclutter down..

239 posted on 08/27/2005 8:03:52 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888; N3WBI3
What is a "tab", and what advantage is there to "tabs" in IE7 vs 6? I assume there is just one open browser with "tabs" but I do not see the difference.

The biggest advantage I see is that you don't have multiple browser processes running. I can browse to multiple sites (I actually have three home pages), without burning up system resources.

241 posted on 08/27/2005 8:40:31 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

If you want to experience tabs on IE now, download the MSN toolbar. It also comes with a killer desktop search engine.

Although, I'm not a big fan on tabs. I end up opening more IE windows. I do see where some people would prefer tabs, I'm just an old dog that can't learn new tricks I guess.


252 posted on 08/27/2005 10:40:50 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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