<story><title>Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs</title><url>http://tabbed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tibbydudeza</author><text>IE was so hackable - remember some Chinese firm (Maxthon) built a complete new browser by just embedding Trident and using ActiveX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kivlad</author><text>My favorite part of Maxthon was the rendering engine switching, where you got to change between Gecko and Trident, and it looks like even Webkit was supported at one point. This was back when you basically needed to use Netscape&amp;#x2F;Mozilla for modern standards and IE for sites that absolutely needed it.
It seems like the only place in the years following you&amp;#x27;d see this would be to get away from IE using forwards compatibility (Chrome Frame) or backwards compatibility (IE Tab in Edge).</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: My small program from 2007 that gave Internet Explorer tabs</title><url>http://tabbed.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tibbydudeza</author><text>IE was so hackable - remember some Chinese firm (Maxthon) built a complete new browser by just embedding Trident and using ActiveX.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scene_Cast2</author><text>Not just IE - things like MSN Messenger and uxtheme.dll had lots of mods. I also remember greasemonkey (from a bit later of a time) being huge, too.&lt;p&gt;I wonder why it&amp;#x27;s less of a thing now. Is it because of the increased difficulty (frequent updates), or is it because there isn&amp;#x27;t as much need for such mods?</text></comment>