Yeah, I hate the tab, too. Nothing against CP; I even went there in its first incarnation.

But I don't wanna surf the web from inside Poser. I kept hitting the CP tab accidentally (usually when I was trying to move the Parameter dials palette out of my way). Then IE would fire up, and it would take awhile to kill it.

And speaking of IE...yech. I prefer Netscape or Firefox. Another reason not to use the CP tab.

I really dislike the recent trend toward erasing the line between online and offline, between software and store. If you're using free software, you expect to put up with ads. But if you paid for the damn thing, it ought to be ad-free.