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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

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.

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