Just recently i got this firefox plugin installed on my laptop. It was cool. Implementing tabs in browsers are no longer new in the mainstream and many find it as powerful, great and useful especially for people who likes multitasking on their browsers. Some says it’s the intelligent way of browsing these days and i couldn’t help but agree more. Looking back, I think the first tabs i got to experience were still in Lotus Notes Workspace. I was still using this Lotus Notes Client 4.6 version and i felt how useful these tabs were in terms of my productivity and categorizing each notes icon in my workspace. Now the same benefit goes as it rolls down to web browsers. As of 2006 most web browsers support tabbed browsing, Opera was the first tabbed browsing interface, followed later by NetCaptor, later by IBrowse in 1999, then Mozilla in 2001, Konqueror and Safari in 2003 and Internet Explorer 7[1] in 2006. Google Chrome, released in 2008, also has tabbed browsing capabilities. - Wikipedia. I think this concept was adapted to web browsers to open the habit of multitasking when browsing the internet or to answer the need for multitasking. Reminiscing old days, i remember if i wanted to check email in yahoo and browse friendster at the same time i need to open 2 browser sessions i.e. internet explorer just to accommodate this request but doing this would mean running 2 application on the taskbar with different URL address or processes. Imagine doing this side by side with other office desktop applications on your computer, horrible speed problems should certainly be expected. To answer this cry for multitasking people, innovators initiated tabbed browsing.... Read More
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