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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)