Firefox tabbed browsing

Software Reality - Mozilla Firefox 0.8: "Ctrl-clicking a link opens the link in a new tab, but - and here's the clever part - doesn't take you there. Instead, the new tab shows an icon indicating whether the page has loaded yet. So you can continue reading the current page whilst the new page loads, then click over to it when you're ready. That's pretty neat, and... It's an interesting interpretation of how punters typically browse the web. If you encounter a web link halfway through a story (essentially "click here for more info"), the natural thing to do is to open the link in a different browser window but keep it for later, in the meantime finishing off the current story (basically finishing off the current thought process before moving onto something new)."

Put Away Childish Things - Darren Barefoot
-Can someone explain what the big deal with tabbed browsing is? I mean, yeah, multiple windows open, click and get another one - but how is that different from having multiple browser windows open on the task bar? I'm sure it's good, I just honestly have not figured out WHY just by trying it.
Enlightenment required/appreciated. -Jeff said. July 3, 2004 07:21 PM
-Yes I'm with Jeff, what is the difference between tabs and different windows open?
-Confession: I don't really like tabbed browsing. Of course, I'm also the person who setup IRC so that it opens each channel as it's own program on the task bar. I like having everything out where I can see it...
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-You can open all of the bookmarks in a folder in tabs. This means that I can launch thirty tabs with the click of a button, and review them very quickly. I usually have at least 5-7 windows open on my taskbar at once, so adding more than a couple of browser windows can mess that up. Adding thirty would make it unusable.
-Tabbed browsing is, indeed, the only way to go. It's much neater, also. You don't have to alt-tab through a cycle of windows to find what you're looking for, when you have all the tabs with their descriptions right above the window you're looking at right now.

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Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. June 04 ...(A partnership between the tech industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of advising people to consider switching browsers.)
-If you're in the habit of opening a barrage of news and blog links every morning and then reading them afterward, or clicking on several Google results from the same search, tabbed browsing is an order of magnitude more efficient and organized than popping up a whole new window for each link.

- - -krnjobforumorsth:
-Why is "tabbed browsing" so much better than individual pages? I mean, if you have 5 tabs open or 5 windows open....what's the difference?
-Uses less system resources.
ah well.
-Yes, check your task manager and you'll see that it keeps only one task running when you tab browse.