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MSN Toolbar 1.2 Releases With Tabbed Browsing

MSN released tonight version 1.2 of its search toolbar, which brings tabbed browsing to all compatible versions of IE well ahead of the release of Internet Explorer 7. While the tabbed browsing is very rudimentary, it is also very excellent. running fast and supporting most features you'd want. Continue below.

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You can click a button to open all links from a specific page (say Bloglines) in a new background tab. You can have all open windows be designated as "My Tabs", and then open them whenever with a single click (although it is not simple to edit them). If you accidentally close your browser, you can re-open it and click "Open Last Viewed Tabs" to get everything back, no harm no foul.

However, you can't right-click on Favorites folders to open all contents in seperate tabs, or have "new window" links open in new tabs (all of those links will open in new windows, no matter how many settings try to say otherwise, and clicking to open all in new tabs breaks Bloglines).

When you switch tabs, there is a funky thing that happens to your screen, and the toolbars are not consistent from tab to tab. Tear-off tabs would be nice, too. MSN is promising even more updates, shooting for monthly releases with new features. Lets hope more advanced options are on the way.

Still, you get tabbed browsing in IE, very useful if you don't want to use Firefox or another browser. Me, I don't use the Fox for various personal reasons, not the least of which is that I want a simpler, leaner browser. In my mind, the browser is to be ignored, providing a box in which web pages go.

Firefox places far too much emphasis on the browser, not the browsing, in my experience, and that is too distracting for me to get any work done. In addition, it has memory issues, slowing down my system the longer I keep it open.

Meanwhile, IE has always been fine for me. Even with the new tab bar, it still is barely there, and very "ignorable". I use it, I leave it, I'm done. It runs very fast, supports all the toolbars I like, supports all the web apps I use, and renders web pages the way they are intended (even if it doesn't support full web standards). It doesn't leak memory. Now, I even get tabbed browsing.

For the average user, it is going to be hard to argue the benefits of Firefox, except security. And of course, for myself, who uses IE and has never, ever been infected with a virus (and spyware-free since a re-install in November), I need Firefox even less.

I'm not saying IE is better. In fact, Firefox is a better browser, with far more features and options. However, it is not what I need. I don't need a better browser; I need Notepad with a URL box. Many others want Firefox far more than IE.

In the end, I suspect both will have a lot of market share, and things will be very competitive, since both are useful programs.

The only thing I am saying: If you use IE, install this damn toolbar. It works nicely, and you can turn it off with a single click.

Toolbar shortcuts:

Oh, and just so you know, those "Open in new tab" shortcuts don't actually work. Fix that now!

About the Author:

Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines.

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