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Originally Posted by Dylrob
Actually tab browsing was introduced in the IE shell "NetCaptor" about 2 years before Opera implemented it.
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Browser tabs were introduced by NetCaptor in 1998, later by IBrowse in 1999, following by myIE2 and MultiZilla (an extension for the Mozilla Application Suite[1]) and Opera in 2000, Mozilla Application Suite in 2001, Konqueror and Safari in 2003, Internet Explorer 7[2] in 2006 and Google Chrome in 2008.
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This is something I never new.
1) Never heard of Net Captor. What is an IE shell anyway? It certainly wasn't in any IE updates, not that I ever updated to,
2) IBrowse? myIE2, MultiZilla? Are all of these shells for IE and Netscape/Firefox?
I'm guessing these were plug-ins?
If so, then I will reiterate. I think Opera was the first browser to have tabs in the default installation package, without having to download any specific plug-in or shell.
I'm actually going from memory of an article I read in Maximum PC or CPU magazine with they were having the browser wars (IE7 vs FF3 vs O9.6... or something like that)