panda's Journal: Perils of Tabbed Browsing

As someone who has been surfing the WWW since the days when IE and Mozilla were one product called NCSA Mosaic, I've never really felt the need for tabbed browsing. Being a long-time user of the X-Windows interface, it has always seemed natural to me that each document should get it's own window. As a result, I've never seen the need for all the added visual clutter involved in tabbed browsing and so, I've not ever really used it.

With the recent announcements of vulnerabilities that seem to require the use of tabbed browsing, I have yet one more reason for my didain.

That said, I'm not trying to tell anyone else how or how not to surf the WWW. If you like tabbed browsing, then continue to surf that way. Myself, I prefer to deal directly with the information that concerns me and to not have all the visual clutter of extra widgets. If I need to visit more than one site at a time, I'll just open another browser window. As I have at this moment 3 windows open & 2 of them pointing at /.

Please, feel free to post your comments below. If you love tabbed browsing, then by all means expound upon its virtues, etc.