In IE, before firefox, I opened a new browser for each link, and used the taskbar as tabs (you can switch with alt-tab instead of ctrl-tab). Maybe firefox makin

In IE, before firefox, I opened a new browser for each link, and used the taskbar as tabs (you can switch with alt-tab instead of ctrl-tab). Maybe firefox making it explicit increased awareness of this approach. For me, the huge value for firefox is as a software platform: an incredible array of extensions, even including another platform: greasemonkey. I always preferred the bookmarking of NN to IE; but I think it was adblock that made me switch to firefox.