I've been a convert to the Maxthon browser for some time now. The convenience of having multiple tabs in one main browser window is great. I assumed that Maxthon would have little success after IE7 came out, but I guess the end of the road for Maxthon came sooner rather than later.
Enter tabbed browsing in IE via the latest version of the MSN Toolbar.
Right-click “Open in new window” still creates another separate instance of IE. Instead, the MSN Toolbar adds two new right-click menu selections: “Open in new background tab“ and “Open in new foreground tab“. The former opens the link in a new tab without changing the focus from the current page. The latter opens the link in a new tab and switches focus to that tab.
The Toolbar also adds an “open each link in a new background tab”, for which the default setting is off. With a click of this button all links will open in their own tab. There is also an “add tab” button to quickly create a new blank tab.
These useful keyboard shortcuts are documented on the Toolbar Help page:
| Go to the next tab on the right |
CTRL+TAB |
| Go to the next tab on the left |
CTRL+Shift+TAB |
| Open a link in a background tab |
Press ALT and click the link |
| Open a link in a foreground tab |
Press CTRL and ALT, and click the link |
| Close a tab |
Press CTRL+F4 |
Update: To the MSN Toolbar team - one organizational helper would be for the “New Tab” addition to be inserted after the currently focused tab rather than tacked on to the end of all tabs.