Mozilla Firefox freed the end user from clutter by offering the tabbed browsing feature
The Firefox web browsing software application was the first web browser to realize that the presence of clutter on the screen of the computer of the end user was the primary reason why the end user was not enjoying his or her web browsing experience.
Let us keep web browsing software applications aside for moment. If you open a dozen windows of Windows Explorer in your computer or if you are not using the Windows Operating System, if you simply open multiple folders at the same point of time and try to work on all the folders at the same time, you will discover that sooner or later, you lose track of the folders and simply lose your way.
The task of switching from one window to another is sufficient to thoroughly confuse the individual. This seemingly simple exercise is sufficient to make the end user lose track of the whole purpose of opening so many windows at the same point of time.
This problem was acutely felt by all the end users of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application. More often than not, one was required to open multiple windows of the web browsing software application when surfing the World Wide Web.
Doing so invariably resulted in the problems! For starters, opening multiple windows slows the computer of the end user. In fact, if you open a large number of windows, you may even end up crashing your operating system. You would be required to restart the computer and lose all the data that you had been the working on to bring the computer back to normalcy. The problems that resulted from the opening of too many Internet Explorer windows was solved by the Firefox web browsing software application by incorporation of the tabbed browsing feature. The resources consumed by the tabs of the Firefox web browsing software application is significantly lower than the resources consumed why each and every window of the Internet Explorer.
This implies that the end user of the Firefox web browsing software application will enjoy a functional web browsing experience despite having opened a large number of web sites or web pages. His web browsing performance will be better than the web browsing experience of the end user of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application.
Working on the World Wide Web has become extremely easy with the presence of the tabbed browsing feature in the Firefox web browser. Irrespective of the number of web sites and web pages you have opened in the web browsing software application, the total number of windows on the taskbar of the computer will remain the same.
If you open one window of the Firefox web browsing software application and if open a dozen tabs in the web browsing window, there would still be just one window in the taskbar of the computer.
On the other hand, if you open a dozen windows of the Internet Explorer web browsing software application, your taskbar would be completely crowded and you will face many problems in maneuvering and negotiating the multiple windows.
If this advantage does not does seem to be a big deal, then you will be surprised to note that many end users of the Firefox web browsing software application have chosen fallen there with the Firefox web browser only because of this feature.
It is only after one uses the Firefox web browsing software application does one realize the extent to which the Internet Explorer web browsing software application was a dysfunctional web browser.
It is only after one makes use of the tabbed browsing feature in the Firefox web browser does one realize the extent of clutter that the multiple Internet Explorer windows cause on the taskbar of the computer.
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