<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item><title>After the reboot: Desktop Search Tabs</title><description>Well, I was forced to reboot - when I closed one of the msiexec Setup processes, it just started rebooting.&amp;nbsp; No questions asked.&amp;nbsp; Thanks.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anyway, I must say that the MSN Desktop Search implementation of tabs is the most botched implementation of them I've ever seen.&amp;nbsp; Some highlights:&lt;br&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Switching tabs causes the whole browser window to flash.&amp;nbsp; The title bar, address bar, menus, everything blinks when switching tabs.&amp;nbsp; It's pretty ugly.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can't close a tab with the middle button, something every other implementation lets you do.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ctrl-W, which closes a tab in every other implementation, closes the whole browser window (all tabs) without asking if that's what you want.&amp;nbsp; Firefox defaults to asking you if you're sure you want to close all the windows.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ctrl-Tab switches tabs.&amp;nbsp; But don't hold it down, or you'll lock up the browser.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When you visit a site by typing a URL into an Explorer window's address bar, you don't get tabs.&amp;nbsp; Alt-Clicking, which normally opens in a tab, just ignores the Alt and takes you to the site normally.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There's no way to say 'right-click on a link to open a tab' or change the key you use.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Sorry guys, but this is the least usable implementation of this feature I can imagine.&amp;nbsp; What's the point?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item>