Microsoft owns the patent for tab based browsing

More Microsoft patent nonsense emerges

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THOSE watching Vole's more recent moves with the US Patent office have started to pull files to see if the software giant has any more rabbits up its sleeve.
Much to the shock of Firefox and Mozarella users everywhere, it seems that Vole owns the patent for tab based browsing.

In March 1997 the software giant showed up at the patent office with the invention of Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs. In other words, when a computer user uses the Tab key to move the focus from one hyperlink to another on a webpage opened in a browser, the use of that function is now owned by Microsoft.