Quote - I guess I don't understand the tab concept. Why do I want to drag a link to a tab or create a new tab?
If I want to go back to a page, I just allow the box to be open...if I want to go back to it, I go to the window taskbar and click it...viola, there it is. I don't have to drag or create anything.
The sites I visit all the time are set up as quick links on the IE menu bar...bango bango..I click and up it comes.
In iE7, maybe its different with FF and Opera, the saved tabs all try to open at one time...if any of the sites are down or slow, it brought the entire app to a basically locked state...probably a bug in IE7, but then I couldn't choose any tab without that new window also locking. I couldn't find a way to save my super favorite sites to a menu bar or whatever. Had to save them as home tabs...
 

Well, unless you're visiting several sites at the same time (either cross-referencing something, looking something up without leaving the site you were on, or waiting for a slow site to finish loading), then tabs have little that would interest you.

And in IE7 (or any browser with tabs) saving a page as a home tab is a very bad idea. That's bring any program to a screeching halt if you had enough.

You have to use the little stars on the left side of the "menu bar" to manage your bookmarks, and whatever you do, don't open the bookmarks menu and click that blue arrow. Common sense (and prior experience with IE6 and below) would make you think that expands a folder with bookmarks, but it actually opens the whole damn lot as tabs.

I still prefer Firefox to IE7, mostly because FF gives me the option to hide the tab section if I've only got one open, IE7 doesn't. And really, with a screen resolution of 1280x1024, I don't find the extra viewing space granted by removing the standard menu bar to be that impressive. Hell, it's not even an extra quarter inch on my screen.

And I have to deal with far fewer instances of spyware and malware with Firefox than IE.

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