What is tabbed browsing?
Tabbed browsing is the ability to quickly switch between several open webpages within a single Web browser window by clicking on tabs. Tabs appear in the browser window when more than one webpage is opened. Each open webpage has its own tab, with the active tab displaying its page “up front,” the inactive tabs hidden behind. By clicking on a tab the user switches that page up front for quick viewing. Tabbed browsing is extremely useful in a variety of situations. If you are reading a webpage and would like to click a link without losing your place, you can open the link in a tabbed window. After reading the link you can close the tab or just click on the original tab to switch back to the previous page, keeping both pages available. Tabbed browsing eliminates the need to repeatedly reload pages or use the “back” button. Comparison shopping is also much easier using tabbed browsing. By opening several bargain-finder websites one can easily refer back and forth between them to see who ha
Tabbed browsing is a relatively new feature found in some Web browsers. Tabbed browsing is a function of some Web browsers that allow uses to surf and view multiple pages by loading the Web sites into “tabbed” sections of one page, rather than multiple pages. This allows the user to view a selection of favorite sites in one window, view multiple search results at the same time, and would allow you to set several pages as your home page, rather than just one.
According to Wikipedia, tabbed browsing first appeared back in 1994. It proved to be very popular with the Internet surfing public at large and was adopted by many different Web browsers. Instead of using a separate window for each open Web page (which can clutter up your taskbar with lots of buttons), tabbed browsing makes it possible to have multiple Web pages open in just one window. It is important to note that this article discusses tabbed browsing as it appears in Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, and Build 5231 on Windows Vista. The look and feel, features and behavior of tabbed browsing may change by the time the final version of Internet Explorer 7 is released.
