[kriro]

Do providers of other browsers that use tabs have some sort of licensing deal with Opera? Seems like they are suing over trade secrets based on Firefox tabs?

Why are they suing the guy and not Mozilla, why are there no lawsuits against other companies that provide browsers?

Feels like a FU-cause-we-can type of deal.

[Androidmeda]

> Why are they suing the guy and not Mozilla, why are there no lawsuits against other companies that provide browsers?

Probably because this isn't about features that already exist, but about features that Opera was working on and hadn't even made public yet. And this guy sold them to Mozilla or something.

Opera never had problems with other browsers copying them once the features were actually out, but in this case Opera's secret features were sold to Mozilla before Opera even had a version of their own.

[sleepyhead]

It is not based on normal tabs (which Opera was first to introduce to a browser). Well actually we don't know the specific yet but the blog post says "a Mozilla employee presents among others a feature named Search Tabs".