System and method for browsing tabbed-heterogeneous windows

摘要

The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for managing multiple content windows. The content windows may host a web browser, a shell view, a word processing application, and the like. A set of content windows are grouped into a frame in a manner such that a taskbar shows one item for the set of content windows. Each content window is associated with a tab for the frame. A content-specific menu may be associated with each tab. The content-specific menu includes a set of commands based on the heterogeneous content hosted in the content window. The set of commands provide functionality to the heterogeneous content.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
displaying a user interface of a tabbed browser application including a first tabbed window; receiving an add tab signal; generating a second tabbed window; and downloading content to the second tabbed window in a background in response to receiving the add tab signal, wherein each tabbed window is processed by a separate thread, thread calls to each tabbed window are asynchronous, thread calls from each tabbed window are synchronous, and the synchronous calls are converted into asynchronous calls such that if one tab hangs other tabs will not hang.