When did they add tabs to web browsers?

Question

Which browser was first and what year was it?

Who stole the idea and improved on it?

Answer 1

The answer to this is a little complicated, because the concept of "tabs" has existed since before the World Wide Web, and web browsers. The first application that used tabs was version of Gosling Emacs, a text editor, and that was in 1988. However, the first web browser to use tabs was NetCaptor in 1997.



Pretty soon, major web browsers started including this feature;



Opera in 2000,

an early version of Firefox in 2002,

Safari in 2003,

and (finally) Internet Explorer in 2006.



The history of tabs is actually quite interesting; if you want more information on it, you can look at the link I put in my sources.

Answer 2

Firefox started Tabbed Browsing then IE incorporated it in IE 7. When the idea of tabbed browsing is open source, there is no theft in incorporating a general idea into your browser...

Answer 3

WorldWideWeb 1990



Microsoft