I think most people still prefer tabs to their "clever" image Tabs is web browsers are evidence of some fundamental brokenness with the web. I think Microsoft'

I think most people still prefer tabs to their "clever" image Tabs is web browsers are evidence of some fundamental brokenness with the web. I think Microsoft's designers probably instinctively hated the idea, just like Apple's probably did (Safari didn't (doesn't?) have tabs turned on by default). It's far from clear to me that most people are comfortable with the concept of dynamically managed tabs. Clearly computer nerds do like them though.