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Revisionist history... Firefox and loads of niche browsers (MyIE2/Maxthon which I used in the era where IE was sometimes mandatory for site compatibility) had t

• xtracto 5y ago
  Somehow it feels like Opera invented most of the features contemporary browsers have. I remember using Opera on an off from the late 90s to late 2000s.
  • Bayart 5y ago
    Opera was a laboratory for a lot of features that got ripped off by everyone else. Vivaldi now still has quite a bit of that spirit (to the point it might feel bloated at times), but I still miss the old Presto-era Opera.
• cxr 5y ago
  Indeed, it would be nice if the tendency of people to jump into a conversation and start spewing absolute nonsense were subject to harsher social consequences. But it was not just niche browsers. By the time of Chrome's debut (2008), just about every browser had tabs—including Internet Explorer: "With the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#History>
  • tolbish 5y ago
    What punishment would be harsh enough in your eyes for the grave mistake of correcting a wrong memory?
    • cxr 5y ago
      Public beheading.
• ericbarrett 5y ago
  It had tabbed browsing, but at the time Chrome came out there was no or limited tab process isolation for FF. I used to work with a guy who always invoked Firefox in gdb so that when it crashed, he could fix the bug (null ptr deref etc.) and continue. As a “tab hoarder” he would lose a day or two of context and productivity otherwise.