Microsoft offers tabbed browsing--in IE 6

By Paul Festa

Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Weeks after promising tabs in its upcoming IE 7 release, Microsoft made the long-awaited browsing feature available for IE 6 through its MSN toolbar.

With the version of MSN Search Toolbar made available Wednesday, IE 6 gains the ability to open numerous Web pages within a single window, each selectable by a small tab at the top of the window.

The feature--long offered by IE competitors like Opera, Safari and Firefox, and by browser shells built to run on top of IE--is one of many that Web surfers have said they missed in the aging IE 6.

Previous Next IE has not had a major feature upgrade in more than three years. Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in the upcoming IE 7.

Microsoft was not immediately available to comment on the new toolbar.

The MSN toolbar tabs for IE 6 were first reported by BetaNews.

Microsoft in November raised the possibility of updating IE 6's features through add-ons like the toolbar, though it disavowed any specific plans to do so.

Published: June 8, 2005, 5:07 PM PDT

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cheers

Thanks waldwolf.

I've just downloaded and installed it and it's great!

Still doesn't stop TV pages from stealing focus if you open them in a new window though...

Bump!

Just in case some of you TV members haven't seen this yet.

BTW, the focus stealing issue has been fixed now.

Just been trying it,better, but still not up with the compertion.If I go to my fav and click on a link I want it to open in a new tap,it still does not do that as far as I can see.

If you HAVE to use IE, I do on a few sites but otherwise rarely use it, you could download this IE wrapper which gives you the tabs, popup blocker and a myriad of other features (looks good too). Best of all, it's free.

http://www.avantbrowser.com/