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		JimDabell on Feb 24, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in fro... > IE was the most used browser back then, by a large proportion, and it didn't supports tabs at all. Internet Explorer barely even existed back then, it certainly wasn’t the most used browser. That came later. No browser had tabs back in those days.

p4bl0 on Feb 28, 2025 [–]

I distinctly remember IE 5.x and 6.x on Windows and Mac OS with no tab support while Mozilla then Firefox (which had a much smaller users base) had them, at a period where HTML frames were still big.

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