Tabbed Browsing in IE7

A couple of add-ons and IE-based browsers made Trident do tabs. Now IE7 does them by default.

Bugs

New Tab stump:
- Has no icon or text while normal tabs have both.
- Is only visible in scrolling tab bar when viewing the last page of tabs.
When moving between tabs, the chrome lags behind the viewport.
Tabs with short text can have lots of space on the right whilst tabs with long text gets clipped.

Remove the New Tab stump.
Add a New Tab button on the left of the tab bar.
Implement tabs like property sheets and Options windows (not quite like Firefox or Opera).
Make useful things happen with all possible drag and drop scenarios (like Firefox).
Allow recovery of closed tabs, somewhat like Firefox and Opera.

(This needs more research.)

Autofit to <title> length.
If the tabs don’t fit on 1 row, shrink them so they do without setting any below a minumum width.
If all tabs are at minimum width and still don’t fit:
1. Add a new tab row.
2. Spread the tabs between rows so each row fills the tab bar’s width.
3. Cycle tab row order until active tab touches the viewport.
If more than 3 rows are needed:
1. Tab bar shows 3 rows.
2. Add a vertical scrollbar, somewhat like the Attachments box in Outlook.
Only paint the tab bar after all sizing and cycling has taken place.
If menu animation is switched on, perhaps animate the changes during this paint?

Add a View > Toolbars > Tab Bar menu item (or even a View > Tabs item):