Or you can right-click a Web link and save the tab. You can even save your tabs-under bookmarks (not exactly intuitive).

It's a nifty tool for comparing deals across shopping sites, or for grouping several favorite Web pages. With tabs, you can view multiple Web pages within one browser window without cluttering your desktop, and just tab among them. Tabbed Browsing is one of the best new features of Netscape 7.0. Internet Explorer 6.0 leaves Netscape behind.Installing the beta Netscape 7.0 browser on a PC that had no earlier versions of Netscape avoided the problems, however. Custom mailbox folders did not appear in Netscape 7.0's Netscape Mail client, and other messages showed up in the wrong folders. On the downside, installing the preview of Netscape 7.0 over earlier versions of Netscape caused some e-mail confusion. It also gave Download Manager a meaningful upgrade, and added support for Site Icons that appear in the URL field and alongside bookmarks. For example, Netscape has restored the Print Preview feature, dropped from Netscape 6.x. The Netscape 7.0 preview release improves what felt like unfinished work with the Netscape 6.x browser. Highlights of the new features include Tabbed Browsing e-mail management tools and which hooks into AOL's Spinner online music division.

Netscape expects to ship the final version this summer, says Catherine Corre, Netscape communications director. But download Netscape 7.0 Preview Release 1 at your own risk, recognizing there are reasons it's still in beta testing. A cursory review of the beta version of Netscape 7.0 running on the Windows XP operating system was stable compared to prerelease versions of Netscape 6.x. The browser-building AOL Time Warner division has ratcheted its software with some nifty new features and even some copycat Internet Explorer tricks. (IDG) - Opening this week is 'Browser Wars: Episode 7.' Like a sequel lumbering into the cineplex, Netscape's latest preview of its Netscape 7.0 browser will battle with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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