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Interestingly, they (or at least not all of them) didn't fake it - there's a style option on the tab control to turn tabs into push buttons. It looked exactly like the task bar - maybe the task bar was actually implemented using that control.

I did not know that. Is it this?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/tab-...

Yeah, I think it's TCS_BUTTONS. Looks like this: http://www.kumei.ne.jp/c_lang/img/sdk20601.gif

They apparently have re-implemented tabs using some sort of tab-by-wire system, since the physical tab-to-content connection is now missing :)

Yes that feels very weird. I expect I'll get used to it, but as somebody who used to be very passionate about how tabs must be above the address bar because that is part of the tab not the overall browser, losing that visual link of "all this page stuff is inside the tab" is weird.

Napster.