Re: A Brief Question about Firefox Browser

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-12-19 01:54:41

It provides the most complete set of options I have ever seen in a tabbed browser, including as a subset the hierarchical tabs, as in iRider. (The only thing presently I don’t like about the tabs the TBE provides is that they have a hair trigger, such that a mere hover selects one. I can’t find a way to configure that differently.)

To me, if there’s a serious information tool in the browser per se, it resides in the way the browser implements tabs. I would rate the browsers on this feature in this order:

1. Tie: iRider and Firefox with Tabbed Browsing Extension. These have the three features I think are most important: a) scrolling tabs; a) Hierarchical tabs; c) tabs that force a new tab for every link. (iRider just works in these ways, while FF lets you set it accordingly.)

2. Netcaptor: scrolling tabs

3. Tie: Opera, Internet Explorer 6 with MSN Search and Tabbed Browsing: tabs of fixed length that can be made visible as a list when they exceed the visible display

4. Tie: Maxthon, AvantBrowser, Firefox (without TBE), just about everybody: tabs that scrunch up when you have more than will visibly display

5. IE 6- No tabs of yet

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