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Tabbed browsing in IE

One of the main reasons why I like Firefox and Opera, besides the fact they are more secure than IE, is that they offer tabbed browsing. I usually have multiple windows open and I hate it when XP 'Groups similar taskbar buttons'. I know I can deselect that option but usually its multiple web browsers that I have opened and I rather have them tabbed.

Last night I happened to download Yahoo Instant Messenger and I installed it without taking a look at what it was installing. Besides installing Yahoo Messenger (which is all I wanted), it added three menus to my All Programs, two shortcuts to my desktop, and toolbars both on IE and Firefox. Damn Yahoo. I just wanted the freaking messenger. However to my pleasant surprise, the Yahoo Toolbar allows tabbed browsing on IE. Of the three browsers I named, IE is the one I use the most.

I did a little Google search and found out that the next release of IE (7.0) will inherently support tabbed browsing. Also, MSN toolbar allows tabbed browsing on IE as well.

The apache+php installation tutorial that worked for me

I have tried serveral times and spent many hours over the last 2 days to get php to work with apache. I have finally succeded in getting it to work and it was with this tutorial.

Some notes:

• I used apache version 2.0.58 instead of 2.2.2.
  
• I am running windows xp on my laptop.
  
• I used localhost both for network domain and server name.
  
• Also, I took their tip and installed apache under C:\apache instead of the default c:\program files\apache group. I am just not comfortable with the spaces in the directory path.
  
• In the tutorial it says to change AllowOverride setting from None to All. In my case AllowOverride was set to .htaccess so I left it alone and did not make that change.
  
• I was not sure what my windows directory was so I copied the DLLs to c:\windows, c:\windows\system, and c:\windows\system32