I would argue that tabbed or multi-windowed browsing is most important on limited resource and low bandwidth devices. The main advantage of opening a tab/window

I would argue that tabbed or multi-windowed browsing is most important on limited resource and low bandwidth devices. The main advantage of opening a tab/window in the background is not having to wait for it to load; the longer the wait, the more that functionality matters. I used the ability to open links in a new window extensively as soon as browsers offere that functionality, which was probably on a 133MHz machine with less than 256MB of RAM on a 14.4kbps (or 9600 baud...not sure) connection if I remember my computing timelines correctly.