Mozilla Preparing to Scrap Tabbed Browsing?

Mozilla Labs has launched a design competition that aims to find an alternative to tabbed browsing. Mozilla’s Firefox has helped to bring tabbed browsing to the mainstream, although rival Opera was the first well-known browser to offer tabs in 2000. Microsoft eventually relented and introduced tabbed browsing with IE7 in 2006, but now it seems Mozilla thinks the concept may have had its day. Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin internet, where ten browser sessions were ‘many browser sessions’, Mozilla claims on its Design Challenge website. Today, 20+ parallel sessions are quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. However, if you have more than seven or eight tabs open they become pretty much useless. And tabs don’t work well if you use them with heterogeneous information. They’re a good solution to keep the screen tidy for the moment