I use ca. 70% Opera, 20% Internet Explorer, 5% Firefox and 5% Safari and i don't like tabbed browsing at all. With the exception of Safari, which cannot open a link in a new window, all other browsers can be used very well with multiple windows too.
I never understood what is so great about tabbed browsing. It forces me to see all pages in the same size, I cannont see multiple pages at once on the screen and the horizontal tab bar is not really easy to scan for page names besides that it's space is rather limited. Since I started to use Windows NT 4 almost 10 years ago I used to attach my task bar to the left side of the screen (pretty wide and in auto hide mode) where it makes a much better tab bar for all applications I am runnig right now and a vertical list is easier to read. This also allows me to switch directly to the window I want instead of clicking the browser first and then the page that I wanted when I switch from another application. And since I use two 21" monitors with a total resolution of 3584x1344 pixels it doesn't make much sense for me to have all browser pages jailed in the same small window.
I never understood what is so great about tabbed browsing. It forces me to see all pages in the same size, I cannont see multiple pages at once on the screen and the horizontal tab bar is not really easy to scan for page names besides that it's space is rather limited. Since I started to use Windows NT 4 almost 10 years ago I used to attach my task bar to the left side of the screen (pretty wide and in auto hide mode) where it makes a much better tab bar for all applications I am runnig right now and a vertical list is easier to read. This also allows me to switch directly to the window I want instead of clicking the browser first and then the page that I wanted when I switch from another application. And since I use two 21" monitors with a total resolution of 3584x1344 pixels it doesn't make much sense for me to have all browser pages jailed in the same small window.
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