From: "Geo." 

I found the answer, they took a guy named Tony Schreiner who had worked on
the IE team for about a year (6 years at MS total) and put him in charge of
the tab implementation. Newbie to IE team, probably doesn't or didn't use
tabs much prior to his assignment..

Where were these people when Ballmer said "take their best ideas and
make them ours"? I mean how hard is it to find someone at MS who
actually used a competing tabbed browser instead of IE so that he could
tell them how to implement it?

There doesn't appear to be an incantation to make it work right, this is by
design, they think of tabs like they were new windows so open as few as
possible... they even have a max of 50 (things break at that point) or so
tabs so if you need more you have to do a really really obscure registry
edit to get more.

Geo.

I'm telling you Glenn, MS is not the company they used to be. "Glenn
Meadows"  wrote in message
news:45944322{at}w3.nls.net...
> OK, question for all about IE7 and it's Tabs.
>
> In Maxthon, and Crazy Browser (don't know about FireFox, haven't used it
> enough), they can both be configured so that when you type a new url into
> the address window, and hit ENTER (not with some modifier key like ALT),
> the new website is opened in a new tab.
>
> Can IE7 be configured to work that way, or is it stuck using the ALT key
> when you hit enter?  I MUCH prefer the need to NOT use a modifer key, to
> keep it a single handed operation after typing.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
>

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