Tab (interface)

In some cases, tabs may be reordered or organized into multiple rows through drag and drop interactions.

[2] The WordVision DOS word processor[3] for the IBM PC in 1982[4] was perhaps the first commercially available product with a tabbed interface.

[5] The NeWS version of UniPress's Gosling Emacs text editor was another early product with multiple tabbed windows in 1988.

[7][8] HyperTIES also supported pie menus for managing windows and browsing hypermedia documents with PostScript applets.

One example is visual tabbed browsing in OmniWeb version 5, which displays preview images of pages in a drawer to the left or right of the main browser window.

Tab behavior in an application is determined by the underlying widget toolkit (for example Firefox uses GTK) framework.

[14] Tab hoarding can lead to stress and information overload,[14] distraction, and reduced computer performance.

[16] Tab hoarders have attributed the behavior to anxiety,[17] fear of missing out,[18] procrastination,[19] and poor personal information management practices.