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Opera had tabbed browsing way before anyone else, in 2000. And actually even before that by handling pages as MDI document windows in its early versions. I us
by T-hawk 14y ago
Opera had tabbed browsing way before anyone else, in 2000. And actually even before that by handling pages as MDI document windows in its early versions.
I used Opera all through the long night of IE6 hegemony, although always ready to switch back to IE whenever a site didn't work in Opera. There was a good, actively developed, standards-compliant browser available that whole time. It just never caught on in terms of popularity and mindshare. I hardly even noticed Firefox until around version 3.
- kibwen 14y agoI didn't intend to downplay the importance of Opera, I just hadn't heard of it until I was well into college (during which I used it as my primary browser for about half a year; to this day I still have Opera's back/forward mouse-button rocker gestures mapped in Firefox). There's no question (afaik) that Opera was the first to get on the tab train.
- brokenparser 14y agoThey weren't even tabs when Opera invented them. It just had a toolbar at the bottom, see here: http://i.imgur.com/bURNJ.gif http://i.imgur.com/bURNJ.gif This is the ad-supported version 5, you had to enter a key to remove them. Prior versions were shareware. StarOffice had a similar idea but they made an effort to show where they were drawing inspiration from: http://i.imgur.com/fiQ5c.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fiQ5c.jpg (For those who are wondering, yes LibreOffice is its legacy.)