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Microsoft offers tabbed browsing--in IE 6
By Paul Festa
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+offers+tabbe..._3-5738037.html
Story last modified Wed Jun 08 17:07:00 PDT 2005

Weeks after promising tabs in its upcoming IE 7 release, Microsoft made the long-awaited browsing feature available for IE 6 through its MSN toolbar.
With the version of MSN Search Toolbar made available Wednesday, IE 6 gains the ability to open numerous Web pages within a single window, each selectable by a small tab at the top of the window.

The feature--long offered by IE competitors like Opera, Safari and Firefox, and by browser shells built to run on top of IE--is one of many that Web surfers have said they missed in the aging IE 6.

    Previous Next IE has not had a major feature upgrade in more than three years. Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in the upcoming IE 7.

Microsoft was not immediately available to comment on the new toolbar.

The MSN toolbar tabs for IE 6 were first reported by BetaNews.

Microsoft in November raised the possibility of updating IE 6's features through add-ons like the toolbar, though it disavowed any specific plans to do so.
n99nyrwg
No way I'm going to use an MSN toolbar. However having it in IE7 will be nice. I use firefox 99.99% of the time. But when I'm working on other computers, or doing things I have to do in IE, it will be nice to have tabs.

I actually know one person that hates tabbed browsing. I don't understand why, but he does.
Keggster22
I've been having a boatload of errors in IE lately, being caused by something to do with add-ons from messenger, and messenger 7.0 was never changed or updated from when I originally downloaded it and had worked fine and now all of a sudden the errors are flying
n99nyrwg
QUOTE(Keggster22 @ 6-9-05, 7:42am)
I've been having a boatload of errors in IE lately, being caused by something to do with add-ons from messenger, and messenger 7.0 was never changed or updated from when I originally downloaded it and had worked fine and now all of a sudden the errors are flying
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Did you send an error report lol.gif
Keggster22
QUOTE(n99nyrwg @ 6-9-05, 8:43am)
Did you send an error report lol.gif
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that seems like it would be such a waste of time, like they would do anything about it
n99nyrwg
QUOTE(Keggster22 @ 6-9-05, 1:54pm)
that seems like it would be such a waste of time, like they would do anything about it
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Yeah I was joking, I hate those stupid things.
Keggster22
QUOTE(n99nyrwg @ 6-9-05, 2:37pm)
Yeah I was joking, I hate those stupid things.
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I figured as much, actually I wanted to answer that I had reported it and Billy got back to mein less than a minute stating he was gonna get right on it for me and also give me a 2 million dollar check just for my troubles with his stuff lol.gif
Alan
QUOTE(Keggster22 @ 6-10-05, 10:54am)
I figured as much, actually I wanted to answer that I had reported it and Billy got back to mein less than a minute stating he was gonna get right on it for me and also give me a 2 million dollar check just for my troubles with his stuff  lol.gif
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Only if you forward the email to 20 people in the next 20 minutes lol.gif
n99nyrwg
QUOTE(Alan @ 6-10-05, 9:57am)
Only if you forward the email to 20 people in the next 20 minutes  lol.gif
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I'm still waiting for my check on all those emails I sent out for that. They must be backed up.
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