Replace your taskbar with tabs (and lose screen real estate)

Tabs are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Firefox, Opera, and even Internet Explorer allow you to open multiple browser windows without seeing thousands of icons in your taskbar. But have you ever wished you could use tabs for everything?

That's what WinTabber is for -- kind of. It doesn't let you add tabs to tab-free programs like your favorite photo editor or multimedia program. Instead, it lets you load applications into the WinTabber environment and navigate between applications as tabs.

In one way, this make sense. Most programs have toolbars located at the top of the screen. So that's where you spend the most time scrolling your mouse around. Why move to the bottom of the page to switch between applications? The problem is that WinTabber has a fairly hefty toolbar of its own. When you install it, you'll notice it eats up a sizeable chunk of space on your screen.

Of course, you could always just move your taskbar to the top of your screen to get a similar effect. Or you could use the default Gnome environment in Linux. WinTabber is Windows only.