Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing

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December 14, 2004

A note from the author (me): After reading comments like this, this (which is pretty rational), and most of all, this (which I’ll admit got me a little agitated), I’d like to emphasize the original point of this post: Homer uses a web browser with tabbed browsing. Does it mean tabbed browsing is the best thing since sliced bread? Maybe, maybe not (I think it’s pretty awesome though). Does Internet Explorer have tabbed browsing? The answer is a resounding NO. Can Internet Explorer be modified via a 3rd-party program so that there is tabbed browsing? Sure. For that you should take a look at Maxthon, AvantBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MyIE2, Slim Browser, and many other similar products.

I just watched the latest episode of The Simpsons and guess what? Homer uses a web browser with tabbed browsing!

A scene in The Simpsons Season 15 Episode 5 where Homer uses a browser with tabbed browsing

It could be the Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Opera, or <insert browser that supports tabbed browsing here>, but it sure ain’t Internet Explorer.

Since someone commented about my media player, I’d like to point out that I use Media Player Classic, which happens to be an Open Source product. It’s Sourceforge project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/, but you’d do better to check out Neil Turner’s writeup instead. I hate Windows Media Player for its bloatedness, clunkiness and its tendency to be totally unhelpful or even go bust when required codecs aren’t there.

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It’s not Mozilla suite nor Netscape, because it has a search field next to the URL bar (Seamonkey has search in the seidebar).

But you forgot to mention Safari and Camino.

Posted by: daniel. on December 14, 2004 8pm

Yup you’re right.

Hmm… It doesn’t quite look like a Mac though.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on December 14, 2004 8pm

The browser window does look like the old mac os style where the close window button is on the top left hand side rather on the right.

Posted by: Scott MacVicar on December 14, 2004 8pm

oh cool! look like firefox?

Posted by: brucetct on December 14, 2004 9pm

But looking at image in http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ it does have something that looks like the small search bar. (If that’s what it is, I’m too lazy to install and find out)

The html title is centered and not left-aligned. Could he be on Linux then? wow.

Posted by: chris on December 14, 2004 9pm

Note that the window title is centered, which is usual for apple’s safari, but less so for windows apps.

Posted by: berkut on December 14, 2004 9pm

yep, it’s closest to Safari because it has that field right of the address bar.

Posted by: berkut on December 14, 2004 9pm

I doubt it’s Safari. Look at the tabs - they’re too white and not rectangular enough. Those tabs look a lot more like isosceles trapezoids.

From the window decoration, I would actually guess that it’s closest to Linux

Posted by: Bryan on December 14, 2004 9pm

it’s not camino, camino tabs are centered :P

Posted by: sryo on December 14, 2004 10pm

It is a mac and it is Safari, just simpsonized. The keyboard scream old school mac because of it’s power key in the upper right hand corner.

Posted by: Rosyna on December 14, 2004 10pm

safari or firefox
Is it Safari or Firefox? :D…

Posted by: adot's notblog* on December 15, 2004 12am

Hehe, Homer should know what’s best, after all he’s the former owner and ceo of Compu-Global-Hyper-Meganet ;-)

Posted by: Ingoal on December 15, 2004 12am

Only 4 buttons in the Navigation bar. It shouldn’t be Firefox. Firefox has 5 buttons: Back, Forward, Reload, Stop, Home.

Posted by: minghong on December 15, 2004 12am

Safari only for OS X 10.2.8 or higher;
ans Safari’s tab doesnlt look like this one,
so, its most probably firefox

Posted by: wfeng on December 15, 2004 12am

It’s Safari.. obviously a Simpsons / animated version of it, but look at the style of the buttons (specifically the Aquatic shading), the search bar, the upper left as has been mentioned before. I don’t think it matters that Safari wasn’t released for version of Mac before OS X… you can’t expect 100% consistency on a minor detail in a Simpsons cartoon.

Also, couldn’t it be that it’s just a mix of “browser-like” features, and all of the good browsers now have tabs? I know when drawing something simple like a browser, I sort of throw together my impressions of the subject, and don’t necessarily try to do a pixel-by-pixel copy. :)

Posted by: Michael Greene on December 15, 2004 12am

Downloaded and watched? Kind of disappointing.

Posted by: Patrick on December 15, 2004 12am

Patrick: Hmm? Did I say something wrong?

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on December 15, 2004 12am

What are you using to download the shows? They are starting to bust people on Bit Torrent, so be careful!

Posted by: Josh on December 15, 2004 12am

I am using BT. Well, OK I think I kinda get what Patrick meant. In fact, there was just a thread downloading on TV shows over at SitePoint forums.

Well, I do get my fix of South Park and Drawn Together via BitTorrent, and recently The Simpsons. It’s probably illegal but it is the only way for fans like me who are not the US to get to watch the latest episodes. The South Park creators themselves don’t mind (though it still doesn’t mean it is then legal).

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on December 15, 2004 1am

Best fit is Netscape 7.0 on Mac OS Classic. Note the four buttons at the left (Back, Forward, Reload, Stop) match the default Netscape 7.0 setup. Also, the style of the Location bar is very much like Netscape 7.0 Modern (the whole area is outlined) with an Internet Keywords dropdown to the left (Netscape 7.0 was the last version to feature such a dropdown) and a Search button to the right. The browser tab is also very Modern style (though the icon on the left looks more like a Safari close tab button than a site icon).

Compare to http://help.powerup.com.au/help/win9598/netscape7/ img/ns7_main.gif.

Didn’t this surface a while back? It’s probably not even supposed to be a specific browser anyway.

Posted by: Alex Bishop on December 15, 2004 1am

I don’t understand why it can’t be Mozilla on the reasoning that there’s a “search field next to the URL bar”. You can alter that appearance with XUL, right?

Whatever the case, the point is…it certainly ain’t IE!

Posted by: Devon on December 15, 2004 1am

“it sure ain’t Internet Explorer.”
It could be any of the myriad tabbed IE-based browsers, tho: Maxthon, Slimbrowser, AvantBrowser, and CrazyBrowser all pop to mind.

There are dozens of em on Windows marketplace.

They’re usually extremely customizable too (to make it look that simplistic).

Posted by: Rob on December 15, 2004 1am

not safari, the direction of tab is different in Safari. More like a Camino on OS 9, but I don’t think there is such thing. BTW, the key board looks like the one I am typing very much.

Posted by: cyfer on December 15, 2004 1am

The Simpsons..
Welchen Browser benutzt Homer?…

Posted by: LostFocus on December 15, 2004 3am

mmm… safari….
mmm… safari…. Silliest discussion I’ve seen this week… figuring out what web browser Homer Simpson is using. [via Paul Thurrott]…

Posted by: JD on MX on December 15, 2004 5am

This looks a lot like Mozilla’s Venerable Modern Theme which is similar to the theme used in early versions of Mozilla and Netscape 6.

Posted by: Nguyen on December 15, 2004 5am

It’s clearly iCab running on MacOS 8 or 9.

Posted by: Mikko Laine on December 15, 2004 5am

I don’t think there is anything wrong with downloading the newest episodes to your computer. What’s the difference with that and recording them onto a tape? As long as you do not sell the recording you, by law, are not doing anything wrong. Fox has released only up to season 4 and there are 11 more to go, it took them almost 7 yrs. to get those out, it will take them a lot longer to get the others out.

Posted by: Stephan Segraves on December 15, 2004 6am

dah! sif its any of the above.. its quite clearly CartoonSafZilla 1.0b

Note the cartoon drawing and the fact Homer Simpson lives in a 2D world, which is fictional and not real therefore any “real” browsers thrown into the mix are incompatible as its an instance only browser - meaning its created once and thrown away after approx 40 frames have passed.

Posted by: Scott Barnes on December 15, 2004 7am

You got it all wrong !

We all know that Homer is a litle bit … lets just say he’s not Albert Einstein so clearly it cannot be any kind of *nix.

We also know that his salary doesnt make him a multimillionaire, so we can be sure that he cant afford a Mac system !

So all that is left are Window’s based browsers, since were talking about tabbed browsing we can exclude IE, since MyIE is rather new, we can say thats its Mozilla or Opera !

Finally .. Since we all know that Homer isn’t all that into Operas, although Marge is, we can safely say thats he’s using *hint*MOE*hint*zilla/Netscape

Cheers,
Daniel

Posted by: Daniel, Silva on December 15, 2004 7am

Err. First of all. We shouldn`t mail Matt G. He left the series a few seasons ago.
The simpsons still take place in 1990 don`t they? So who can he use a web-brwoser anyway. A-Yet to come kind of software für a just in development markup language?
Anyways: Logic doesn?`t matter much if ya talking about the Sipnsons and even more if it cocerns Homer.
So it must be Mo(E)zilla

Posted by: jm.one on December 15, 2004 9am

It’s clearly a Mozilla browser, and it even looks like it may be running on Linux….

…no, I must be imagining things.

Posted by: bryan on December 15, 2004 11am

Looks like Mozilla Seamonkey 1.x with the Modern theme running on Mac OS 9 to me. If you’ve watched the Simpsons a lot, you’ll notice everything’s always running something that looks like OS 9 :)

Looks exactly like Mozilla seamonkey to me.

Posted by: Albert on December 15, 2004 12pm

I don’t really approve of the practice, that’s all. Where the difference is, from what Stephan said, is distribution. If you record it for your own private viewing, that is one thing… making copies available for mass distribution is another. That is what is wrong. While I sympathize with you not being able to watch new episodes… that isn’t an excuse and it doesn’t give you the right. Neither does “Fox takes too long for the DVDs, I don’t want to wait!” It just doesn’t. That is why I am disappointed. But, it seems you may not have known it was wrong, so its not that big a deal. I don’t think you’d knowingly do it.

The sad thing is that it’ll stay up, most likely. This is a trend… a lot of people just don’t care about the property of others. I guess you’d have to have someone steal, copy, distribute and mess with your stuff to fully appreciate it. People like to try to take advantage of the communities I run - my property and sweat and tears - all the time, so I am very hardened to this type of thing.

Posted by: Patrick on December 15, 2004 1pm

Patrick,

I think the difference though, is the fact that not everyone has a TV tuner video card in their PC and no one is making a profit by disitributing these episodes. So, there really is no harm. Now, there are people who get these episodes and use something like DVD Shrink to make a DVD compilation of them and sell them which is wrong, because in the long run it does affect the sales of Fox.

I have friends that used to rent movies, watch them, and then copy them to a blank videocassette. Is that wrong? They weren’t selling the copies, just making a single one for their viewing. I think the whole Digital Rights Management issue is still a very touchy thing that has not been defined very well by the government.

I have episodes from seasons 10, 11, 12, and 13. I don’t give them to anybody but I like to watch them from time to time. I did not obtain them by recording them but from a friend. He did not sell them to me. Does that make it right? I don’t know. I know that when those seasons come out on DVD I will buy them anyway because I want to be able to get the features of the DVD and watch them on my television.

Posted by: Stephan Segraves on December 15, 2004 3pm

Great catch! Doesn’t look like a Mac or a PC (too old skool, 5″ drives anyone?), but The Simpsons have used Macs in the past … does it really matter. Tabbed browsing to the people!

Posted by: Alex on December 15, 2004 5pm

The Simpsons have always used the mac OS 9 interface (and I believe a bit of OS 8 also). People are getting caught up on the combination of browser and OS, but their OS look will most probably never change, for the same reason they still have those hideous ‘corn’ curtains in the kitchen. I’d say a it’s a firefoxed version of Nutscrape.. oops! I mean Netscape. Heh

Posted by: Andrew Krespanis on December 15, 2004 5pm

Homer Simpsons has switched from IE
Homer Simpsons has switched from IE…

Posted by: Quicklinks on December 15, 2004 6pm

Giner Simpson uses tabbed browsing
Witness what happens when Simpsons geeks and browser geeks collide….

Posted by: Dan Says on December 15, 2004 10pm

Also, witness what happens when you right hand strays left of the home row of Dan’s keyboard.

Posted by: dansays on December 15, 2004 10pm

Good grief, I can’t type this morning. “Giner Simpson”, “what happens when you right hand”…

I’m going back to bed.

Posted by: dansays on December 15, 2004 10pm

The main Mozilla search is in the URL bar and not in the sidebar… (enter search term in the URL Bar, press arrow UP+Enter)

Posted by: matti on December 15, 2004 11pm

The Simpson episodes are drawn in Korea. Are there any browsers out there that might not be used by the West?

Posted by: Michael Nelson on December 16, 2004 12am

Stephen,

Plenty of people would agree with you. There is no harm, no one is profiting. To me, that doesn’t matter. Just because someone is not profiting off of something, that doesn’t make it less wrong. If someone copies my logo and throws it on their non-profit website, is that cool? No, its not. More than not cool, it is unethical and despicable. Besides, this does affect Fox long term. If you can download every episode, why wait for the DVD at all? Forget DVDs, we don’t need to buy them, we can just download every episode we want! In fact, Fox doesn’t need our money - they’re just an evil corporation! I’m the average working man who is scraping together a living - I DESERVE IT!!! (I know that’s exagerating and that’s not you, but there are people out there like that…) You say you will buy the DVDs and I believe you, but there is more to it then that, for me. Copies of a program are not to be distributed without permission from the property owner of the program. That is what I respect above all else.

Yes, what your friends did was wrong. For example, if you buy a CD, you now own one license of each song on that CD for you any of your personal listening pleasure. Burn the songs and listen to them on your PC and your iPod. Don’t distribute them. If you rent, you are doing just that - renting, a temporary situation. You can view it for as long as your rental period is current. If you rent a movie for 5 days, you can view it for 5 days, for example. Making copies to view beyond that 5 days is what makes it wrong. If you want to view the movie beyond that, rent it again or buy (a single household license, in essence) of that movie. If people make a copy or two of that and give it to their mother and brother, that’s not a big deal. But, when someone is making copies and sending to more than a couple of people (bunches of family, friends, even people they don’t know that well), that is pretty bad, in my opinion.

Posted by: Patrick on December 16, 2004 1am

Stephan! Sorry, typo.

Posted by: Patrick on December 16, 2004 1am

It’s a cartoon. Get a life and take off that Star-Trek costume.

Posted by: Matt on December 16, 2004 1am

Geeky Discussion
“Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing”: strong candidate for geekiest blog discussion ever….

Posted by: Shorts on December 16, 2004 1am

I expected comments like that (that was on the rude/disrespectful side, though). I know I am in the minority when it comes to this issue. Online, at least. But, like I said, I’ve been hardened to this by having people take advantage of me and the media (”cartoons”) that I have created, so that’s my perspective, for what it is worth.

Posted by: Patrick on December 16, 2004 1am

Great find!

Posted by: Joel on December 16, 2004 2am

Did you forget about Avant? It uses tabbed browsing and runs the IE engine. It is much better than crappy Mozilla. Of course if a dimwit like Homer is running Mozilla, what does that say for that crap?

Posted by: John on December 16, 2004 2am

It can’t be a person because he only has four fingers.

Posted by: Dystopos on December 16, 2004 2am

How could I resist this opportunity to plug my Firefox extension that makes killer use of the tabbed browsing feature called “LookAhead”? You can find it under the “Search Tools” on update.mozilla.org

Homer might say “Mmmm… LoooookAhead”…

Posted by: B. Rintoul on December 16, 2004 3am

Homer might say “Mmmm… LoooookAhead”…

Posted by: B. Rintoul on December 16, 2004 3am

Internet Explorer it surely ain’t: Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing. And we’ve got pictures to prove it! (via airbag)…

Posted by: [i:rrhoblog] : linkdump on December 16, 2004 3am

rad.

Posted by: GURT on December 16, 2004 4am

Homer Simpson browser debate
These people, armed with a shot of Homer, using the Internet are debating what browser and operating system he uses. Apparently he uses some form of Gecko browser - if not Netscape, then Firefox or Safari, maybe. Not IE though….

Posted by: The Fudge Said No on December 16, 2004 7am

Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
redemption in a blog - Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
Witness what happens when

Posted by: A Day After Yesterday on December 16, 2004 7am

Has to be Firefox, cuz the computer doesnt look like a Mac.

Posted by: Roberto J. Dohnert on December 16, 2004 7am

What’s all the fuss about ?
It’s obvious to me that he’s using Firefox 1.0 (with image)

Posted by: Alexandre Juneau on December 16, 2004 7am

And Chu uses Windows Media Player

Posted by: Bill Gates on December 16, 2004 6pm

That’s Media Player Classic, not Windows Media Player, Mister, umm, Gates. Media Player Classic happens to be an Open Source product. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ and Neil Turner’s writeup.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on December 16, 2004 6pm

Since it seems MacOS 9.x, I bet for Netscape 6.x :)

Posted by: Juanjo on December 16, 2004 7pm

You guys are fucking pathetic. Arguing over what browser Homer is using? Holy shit! You are all fucking retards. Get a life you sacks of shit.

Posted by: Skaught on December 16, 2004 10pm

Gee, looks like iCab back on OS 9 to me. Yes, I’m an old school OS geek.

Posted by: ben on December 16, 2004 10pm

I don’t get the tab browsing thing. So it has it at the top. Just drag your tool bar at the top and open another Internet Explorer window there is the tabs on the top for Internet Explorer.

-Raymond Day

Posted by: Raymond Day on December 16, 2004 11pm

Homer surfs the internet…
…and we can safely conclude he uses tabbed browsing. Maybe the page Homer is surfing is actually his, you know, Home(r) page.

Posted by: random notes on December 17, 2004 12am

It looks like Avant Browser (www.avantbrowser.com). You can have the search bar on or off with it, and it is tabbed browser.

Great browser, BTW, built in pop-up blocker, and it is really only an overlay for IE, but MUCH better.

Posted by: Loral on December 17, 2004 1am

Did you guys ever think that since this is a cartoon, that matt just created a drawing of a browser and it’s not a replica of ANY browsers on the market today? It has several features of all the browsers on the market also…
I use MyIE2, now maxthon, because it uses the Internet Explorer engine, and has features of Firefox, but webpages are rendered better on the IE engine, so it’s really nice and has a bad ass pop up blocker built in and a kick ass search bar that links to google or other search engines. http://www.maxthon.com

But seriously that browser is just a imaginary browser made up!

Posted by: rc98civic on December 17, 2004 1am

Who CARES>>> This post is like… trying to guess the color of yellow, that the simpsons are colored. OR… maybe what gasses and nutrients are in the simpsons environment… sheeeesh

Posted by: Dougeee on December 17, 2004 2am

Homer Simpson nutzt tabbed browsing
redemption in a blog veröffentlichte einen Screenshot aus der aktuellsten Simpsons-Folge, die Homer beim Surfen mit Tabs zeigt. Via MacOrama….

Posted by: surfgarden on December 17, 2004 4am

It also could be the one that I use and love..even though it uses the IE footprint.. Crazy Browser.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. Spyder X on December 17, 2004 4am

Sad puppy that I am, I have followed many a DVD commentary made by Matt whatshisface and his crew, they are big MAC fans. It is quite clearly a G3 with Firefox! ;)

Posted by: John Oxton on December 17, 2004 5am

Cheah: you might want to remove yur first line: “I just downloaded and watched the latest episode of The Simpsons ” in regards to the MPAA crackdown.

Posted by: huphtur on December 17, 2004 6am

I think it’s iCab, it’s just like that, and is available for Mac OS Classic.

Posted by: galio on December 17, 2004 8am

I agree, it looks like an old Mac OS style to me.

Posted by: Brandon on December 17, 2004 10am

possibly he is running KDE and using konqueror with the search field on.

its the simpsons he is not even really using a computer its a cartoon

Posted by: 808blogger on December 17, 2004 3pm

Homer’s Browser
There’s a heated web browser debate going on over at “Redemption in a Blog” as techies try to sort our what web browser Homer Simpson uses, see “Homer Simpson Uses Tabbed Browsing”. Top theories bounce between FireFox and Safari, with…

Posted by: cogdogblog on December 17, 2004 9pm

Get Ready To Call ITunes Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today’s New York Times paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented…

Posted by: Sideblog on December 18, 2004 6am

You are are serious nerds, Maybe if you had friends, a girlfriend, I dont’ know SOMETHING because anybody who sits down and tries to figure out what browser Homer is using has too much time. 10 bucks says Matt just whipped something up.

Posted by: KB on December 18, 2004 8pm

Get Ready To Call ITunes Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today’s New York Times paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented…

Posted by: Sideblog on December 19, 2004 1am

The standard configuation of firefox has a small search feild in the top right. And you can confiure the buttons and menus however you like. In the crome.css file or in the veiw-toolbars-customize menu. it very well could be firefox. and its just a blog I stumbled on it and I could care less. to the
“You are are serious nerds, Maybe if you had friends, a girlfriend, I dont’ know SOMETHING because anybody who sits down and tries to figure out what browser Homer is using has too much time. 10 bucks says Matt just whipped something up. ”
comment. I suppose the point is it isnt IE!

Posted by: greenmaji on December 19, 2004 3am

From the appearance of the title bar across the top of the window its clearly MacOS 9 (Classic) as well.

Posted by: Some Guy on December 19, 2004 4am

Just an FYI: You can Tab Browse in IE, I do all the time. The solution is MyIE2 (do a search for it), basically a new front end that uses the IE engine and crap.
While I agree IE sucks (or should I say blows since it freely breathes out security flaws), I must use it for many of my work applications (online databases that will error out or not work properly in anything but IE).

That being said, Homer ain’t using MyIE2, unless he has a custom skin and has a very good modder to change up most everything. (Lisa?)

Posted by: Brian Poirier on December 19, 2004 4am

It’s pretty obvious to me, that it’s MacOS pre X (9.2.2 or older) - look at the pinstripe grey topbar with close button on the left.

The browser itself.. well, it isn’t Safari.. that wouldn’t work under classic and it doesn’t have a blue top-area. My guess would be a mixup of several browsers and environments. The computer doesn’t exacly go for a powermac, anyway.

Posted by: Michel on December 19, 2004 6am

The poster knowingly didn’t mention the maxhton browser, which is based on IE and uses tabbed browsing. Another one is netscape which is also based on IE.

The author of the blog is just a Microsoft basher, nothing serious here. Certainly it could be Internet Explorer via Maxhton or any other browser which uses Internet Explorer.

Posted by: Jin on December 19, 2004 11am

Jin: Of course I didn’t mention Maxthon. Maxthon is NOT IE. C’mon I’m sick of posts like this trying to make me sound like a self-righteous Microsoft-bashing zealot. The point I am trying to make is that Homer uses TABBED BROWSING. Does Internet Explorer have tabbed browsing? The answer is a resounding NO. Can Internet Explorer be modified via a 3rd-party program so that there is tabbed browsing? Sure. For that you should take a look at Maxthon, CrazyBrowser, MyIE2, Slim Browser, and many other similar products.

Oh, and “Netscape based on IE”? All I can say is, “really?”. Of course my face will be looking real scrunched up trying to give you the most incredulous look I can make.

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on December 19, 2004 12pm

Sick, but partially true. The latest (currently beta) version of Netscape is the usual AOL monster. Its based on Firefox (and old version and I really hope that they bring it upto date before leaving the beta stage), but has a “Render like IE” option which reloads the current document using an ActiveX control that implements the IE rendering engine.

Posted by: David Dorward on December 19, 2004 3pm

Firefox campaign exp. : Atypical Persuasion messages
Not only is it a great browser, but it will make your teeth whiter and secure you a date with Carmen Electra. I just watched the latest episode of The Simpsons and guess what? Homer uses a web browser…

Posted by: Blogism.org on December 19, 2004 9pm

Firefox Rules (Again)
Those who have read this blog before will know that I am a dedicated supporter of Firefox as an alternative to Internet Explorer, and it’s not just because I want to appear leet in front of my friends. I don’t think I need to list the most important …

Posted by: Wizzlopia on December 20, 2004 1am

When I saw the picture at the top of this page I instantly recognized it as the browser I am forced to use at my internship, which is Netscape 7 running on Mac OS 9. Netscape 7 on Mac OS9 has all the elements that are in the picture. The OS9 look of the window, the four circle buttons on the top left part of the browser, and tabbed browsing with the tabs displayed on the top.

Posted by: john ruthson on December 20, 2004 4am

All you need to do is think about who created this animation and what kind of a computer he/she is probably using. Got it? :-)

Posted by: Techmount on December 20, 2004 11pm

That’s not a tab…it’s just a blob of white-out to erase something I typed earlier.

Mmmmmmm…Lynx….

Posted by: Homer on December 21, 2004 8am

Hm… errr…

It doen’t look like a mac? Well… let me say it this way, there is no question: The computer homer simpson uses in the scenery is definately a mac. Don’t look at the finder (desktop), just look at the keyboard. The switch-off-button on the left side of the keyboard (single button left up) is typically for a series of mac-computers…

regards.

Posted by: r.oland on December 21, 2004 10am

all that really matters is that homer simpson uses tabbed browsing…
Case Closed

Posted by: geoff on December 21, 2004 12pm

Se Homer Simpson sa usare un browser a schede, lo puoi fare anche tu!!!

Posted by: FoxyBlog on December 21, 2004 4pm

Se Homer Simpson sa usare un browser a schede, lo puoi fare anche tu!!!

Posted by: FoxyBlog on December 21, 2004 4pm

Anche Homer !
Ora sappiamo che anche Homer non usa Explorer, ma un browser con navigazione a schede(cliccate qui per vedere l’immagine zoomata). ;-)Volete restare solo voi ad usare ancora IE?

(via redemption in a blog)

Posted by: Capitano Uncino on December 21, 2004 6pm

Tabbed Browser
It seems that after the Mozilla Firefox browser release, tabbed browsing issue becomes more popular. Even they were arguing about the tabbed browser Homer Simpson uses.

Posted by: Kasim Chen on December 22, 2004 12am

So how long before we get a Firefox theme that duplicates the look of Homer’s browser? ;-)

Posted by: Upper Deck Chevy on December 22, 2004 1am

It has to be mozilla. Theres only 5 buttons to the left of the address bar just like in mozilla. And the little search bar to the right of the address bar. Plus tabbed browsing. I’m 99.9% sure that it might be it.

Posted by: Jonathan on December 22, 2004 1am

Its firefox u can tell cuz it has the firefox 0.9 buttons and the google search bar and no go button (by defult there is no go button in firefox u got to enable it)

Posted by: jeremy on December 22, 2004 1am

Netscape 7 on Mac OS 9.

Posted by: brandon on December 22, 2004 3am

This may be a future version of Internet Explorer ;-)

Posted by: DD on December 23, 2004 1am

Initially I thought SeaMonkey but after comparing screenshots I’m pretty sure it is Camino–if you look really carefully all the buttons are right too–the first arrow is more shadowy than the second one but they are arrows and the other buttons look right. Not sure how it being Camino works with it being an MacOS 9 look.

Posted by: Joe Ll. G. Blakesley on December 23, 2004 6am

This post is meant simply for the person that said “Another one is netscape which is also based on IE.” Are you kidding me. You actually go to sleep at night thinking that IE and Netscape are based on the same rendering engine? Are you truly that stupid or did you just hit your head before you wrote that. Please, go back to pumping gas and leave the thinking to those that are equipped to do it. What a moron…

Posted by: Andy Pfeiffer on December 24, 2004 5am

I think its MAC OS. It is very similar, at least.

Posted by: Caio César on December 26, 2004 11am

Homer simpson = tabbed browser
Haha, this is pretty funny…check it out.

Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing

Posted by: LoonySalmoN on December 29, 2004 1am

Posted by: Cybergnition on December 29, 2004 2pm

To me it looks like he is using Mozilla on the Linux distribution Linspire.

Posted by: Andy Melton on January 7, 2005 12am

Not Mozilla, because there is one tab.
And if you have one tab in Mozilla, it’s without tabs.

Posted by: Ruben on January 7, 2005 9pm

Too bad about all the negative comments - I think it’s a pretty funny discussion, so that’s the entertainment value right there.
I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but maybe more distracting is that he has a computer with 5 1/4″ drives on it. Lisa probably took an old clone and put Linux on it. C’mon, she’s been like 8 years old for 10 years - she has to have had the time.
And having Homer Simpson endorse the activity - isn’t that more of a strike against tabbed browsing? His catch-line is “d’oh!” after all.

Posted by: Will on January 8, 2005 4am

Links for 2005-01-10
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