Tabbed browsing is wonderful because in one window, you can have tabs showing all of your browsing windows. You can move between them within one (outer) window, which means (a) a lot less clutter on your task bar, and (b) all of the titles are showing.
(a) is important to me, because I might open six or seven links at a time (easily... this is what I do, for instance, as I read the headlines in the morning). But if I have other things on the go (because, for some reason, they don't actually pay me to browse headlines), then everything else isn't swamped by what would otherwise be a half-dozen applications in the taskbar.
The solution that a lot of people have adopted to this taskbar clutter is to turn on the Windows grouping of applictions (which I do, too). However, this leads to (b) — it's much less of a pain to see what each tab contains when the titles are actually showing. Also, they're maintained in a constant order... something which Windows has decided is unimportant.
There are other benefits, such as shunting that which would otherwise open in a new window into a new tab instead. But you have to like tabbed browsing for this to be considered a plus...
WRT Firefox overall, between the extensions and the skins, there is a lot more than tabbed browsing that makes it so good. :)
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Tabbed browsing is wonderful because in one window, you can have tabs showing all of your browsing windows. You can move between them within one (outer) window, which means (a) a lot less clutter on your task bar, and (b) all of the titles are showing.
(a) is important to me, because I might open six or seven links at a time (easily... this is what I do, for instance, as I read the headlines in the morning). But if I have other things on the go (because, for some reason, they don't actually pay me to browse headlines), then everything else isn't swamped by what would otherwise be a half-dozen applications in the taskbar.
The solution that a lot of people have adopted to this taskbar clutter is to turn on the Windows grouping of applictions (which I do, too). However, this leads to (b) — it's much less of a pain to see what each tab contains when the titles are actually showing. Also, they're maintained in a constant order... something which Windows has decided is unimportant.
There are other benefits, such as shunting that which would otherwise open in a new window into a new tab instead. But you have to like tabbed browsing for this to be considered a plus...
WRT Firefox overall, between the extensions and the skins, there is a lot more than tabbed browsing that makes it so good. :)