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Writing your own Web Browser that supports tabs and an integrated search engine link

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While there are many browsers out there that do this already like the superb Firefox and My-IE I wanted to link to a really cool article by John Kennedy (unfortunate name I know) on how to build your own version based on top of the IE rendering component available in windows.  Partly because it's just quite cool, shows off C# express, and shows how you can write a pretty complete application with just a few lines of code, but also because John works right down the hall from me and he deserves some props for this article. 

Of course, I hate tabs and the google toolbar already gets me this functionality but it's still sweet John :-)

Tabs... shudder!!

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  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2004
    Good article! Thanks for the link. I'm curious though, where is the tab option in the Google toolbar?
  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2004
    Gregg: Don't know/Don't care :-)

    I mostly don't use tabs. Or, if I really want to use them i just use firefox which is now my primary browser due mostly to speed.
  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2004
    Gregg: Don't know/Don't care :-)

    I mostly don't use tabs. Or, if I really want to use them i just use firefox which is now my primary browser due mostly to speed.
  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2004
    Yay, somebody else who doesn't like tabs.
  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2004
    The article is very misleading. It is not about writing your own browser, it's about hosting Internet Explorer. Whatever you create will be IE, not a new browser. Any IE security holes will still apply, even though you might think that you're safe because you're not running IE, you're running your own browser.
  • Anonymous
    August 09, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2004
    For the Ant-Tabbers out there:

    I use MyIE2 - and I use the tabs for pretty much two "things" - one is fark.com - because it keeps all the things I want to look at later in nice neat tabs.. and secondly - are these MSDN blogs. You can right-click a link and it opens in a new tab - AND (probably the coolest thing) is it has "groups". So I have a "MSDN Blogs" group - that has like 30 blogs that I normally check everyday. So I open this up, open the group, shrink down the window - and when I come back - I just start going through the tabs.. when I run out of tabs, I'm done.

    You can right-click a tab to close it and again - for anything cool I see on any page, I just middle-mouse click it, it opens it in a new tab (and doesn't disrupt my page) and I keep reading.. It's really VERY intuitive.. the MYIE implementation of tabs is by far the best and most intuitive..

    But yes - for everything else, I find tabbed browsing to be annoying and claustrophobic.
  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2004
    The article seemed to imply that Firefox is, like MyIE and AvantBrowser, merely a wrapper around the MSHTML rendering engine, but it's not -- Firefox uses Gecko.
  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2006
    Can some one tell me how i create a browser?
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    June 13, 2009
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