Oh, I understand you like it that way, but I like the "alt-ctrl-winkey-shift-tilde" stuff. It's not like it's hard. Plus, your method doesn't solve what I was talking about with regards to people posting while you're reading. New posts arrive on these forums pretty damn fast!

everything is contained in one Start bar item

This also has to do with my liking the Alt+Tab far more than the Mozilla tabs. I much prefer to cycle through a group of windows equally. With the tabs, you can't switch between each page you are browsing and another window equally. You have to switch to Mozilla first and then switch to one of the tabs. That's what I don't like about it. It's not a fault of the whole idea of tabs, it's just that I prefer the other way. IMO, neither is better than the other, it's just that tabs don't suit me.

This has the added benefit of One-Finger-Browsing(tm)

See, as for me, my left hand is permanently grafted to the keyboard, and I like it that way my left pinky finger rarely moves from the Ctrl key. I think I'm more of a keyboard person than a mouse person.