George Roettger of nthelp.com recommended that I try Crazy Browser. Well, I did and its not bad. It has the tabbed window support that Mozilla and Netcape 7.0 has but Crazy Browser uses the MS IE browser engine DLLs.

I've only been using it for an afternoon and so my impressions of Crazy represent a limited amount of use so far. Here's what I don't like about it:

• Right click on a link gives an "Open in New Window" that really opens in a new tab. One can't choose between opening in a new tab vs opening in a new window. With Mozilla that choice is available.
• Running on top of IE5.5 sp2 its threading does not feel as finely granular as Mozilla does. It gets into modes where for several seconds its not responsive while it does some operation. For instance in Mozilla if one page is loading slowly one can click quickly to switch to a different tab and read the page already loaded in the second tab while waiting for the first tab's new page to finish loading. Well, Crazy Browser will delay many seconds before making the switch. This poor ability to switch to view something else while an operation is happening is similar straight IE5.5. I haven't spent enough time yet with IE6 to say whether its ability to switch btw threads while doing tasks in one thread is any more finely grained.
• The "Close Current" button which closes the current tab is small and right next two buttons that close more than just the current tab. Its too easy to click the wrong button and lose a lot of tab windows. On the other hand its "Undo" functions will let you undo the close of tabbed window and even larger sets of undos of closed windows.

Its tabbed window behavior has some differences with Mozilla but nothing hard to adjust to. If you are currently using IE the Crazy Browser downoad is less than 700k and is worth a try. Its not going to replace Mozilla as my chief browser but I will use Crazy Browser whereever I currently use IE.