• sabreW4K3OP
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    2 months ago

    Mozilla were really ahead of their time when they implemented detached tabs.

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      In fact Opera were more ahead of their times, because they were the first to add tabs and had a lot of features that we now take for granted. I know this because I used Netscape browser (before they were called mozilla) and Opera 4.x at the time.

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        Opera were visionary. But I was only referring to detached tabs, which Mozilla implemented, Chrome followed and now Vivaldi.

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          What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question

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            You see how the tabs don’t connect to the address bar

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              Wait so it’s just a design choice? I mean I get they were the first but really, who really cares about stuff like that?

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                Mozilla get so much flack of late, it’s good to balance that and give them credit where it’s due.

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              The new software design trends is to break free for skeumorphism completely. “tabs” are no longer tabs, they are buttons or whatever. Firefox is doing the same.