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Name: Adam for web page design, not program
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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John, I normally don't disagree with you, but in this case I have to. There are two reasons why I would suggest that the idea of killing the "Home" button is a bad idea:
1) I have my home page set to about:blank. When I want to visit a site and don't want people to see where I'm directly coming from, I simply click "Home" and visit the site from there (after a few seconds). I realize that puts me in the minority, but it also helps the site owner since it's a site I've been to before and, if the site owner checks his/her stats, (s)he will see "No Referrer"...which happens to be true.
2) People are accustomed to the Home button being there. The worst thing a browser programmer can do is take away functionality, even if it's not used.
As far as tabbed browsing goes...I have intentionally disabled tabbed browsing, and most of my clients' employees have as well. In my particular case, I have a widescreen monitor and the taskbar is on the left. I can glance quickly at, and visit, my open IE windows from any other program and save a clickthrough in the process. I don't have to open a browser window and then a tab. My clients simply never liked tabbed browsing for various other reasons.
The other angle relates to my girlfriend. She uses my computer quite a bit, and when she wants to check her email or do her banking or whatever, she clicks on the big blue E, opens up a new window, does her thing, and closes it without accidentally closing any of whatever I'm working on.
For some people, tabbed browsing works. I've just found that it doesn't for the majority.
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F5 is the magical button. It refreshes a page in any browser, it compiles and runs your code in Visual Studio and a lot of other programming tools, and it runs a SQL query in Enterprise Mangler, Query Analyzer, and Management Studio. Not Access though.
