Grouped tabs? Other browsers have had that capability for a long time. Just goes to show you--Microsoft is not a leader but a follower.

Actually marytee, you are wrong. No other browser automatically assigns tab colors to tabs that originate from the same domain. It's extremely handy for those that have 20+ tabs open at the same time, like me. I can close all the tabs from the same domain, say weather.com, with a right click.

Highly Unreadable!!! These TABs B L O W, any chance of being able to change the font color to black from white? a light yellow tab with white type is unreadable. a light grey tab with white type is unreadable. a light teal green tab with a background fade to white, with white type on it is unreadable. You can tell Microsoft brainstormed it again thinking cheap and not brining in a top design pro to work out the interface. I can never understand it?

Hi Steve,
I agree 100%! we should be able to customize the tab colors and font.
That green is nothing but awfull!

My problem with IE8 colors is close: I can't see which Tab is current because color of curent Tab differs almost unnoticeably!
So I can't easily inspect my open tabs - I'm forgetting where I am :-).

Actually 7he7th7rumpet, you're wrong too. IE8 doesn't group tabs basedon domain: from the IEBlog:

"The idea behind tab grouping is that tabs originating from the same source are grouped together."

So if you have 8 tabs open that all point to pages on weather.com but are not derived from the same source page , or a 'child' of that source, they won't all automatically close when you click 'Close This Tab Group'.

It does blow that you can't customise the colour scheme too. Peppermint green on a sky-blue backdrop is *not* a good look.

i wanna know how to un-do it because it annoys me as hell that i open a tab from one of the tabs i have first and if i have many more tabs open it goes to the end after all of them.

I for one don't like the group color tags, i want my regular tabs back. Tabs were made for multi-tasking in the first place, now you want to color code them against my theme... dammit im 21yrs old and i dont like the girly colors and the fact i cant change them without some complicated processs. f windows mac is where its at

Has anyone found a way to get rid of the ugly tab colors. I can't see how they would be useful except for an extremely small percentage of the time and they are ugly and distracting.

we should have ability to choose a color for any tab by right clicking it. Let "US" choose the color WE WANT and have a sharp contrast to adjoining tabs. Why should you who arent on or uing my tabs be in control of colors YOU WANT? ALONG WITH ABILITY TO CHOOSE OUR OWN COLOR TYPE/SCRIPT on tabs. Grouping is fine (when it works) I opened a new tab after logged in and pasted a URL have on my multi clipboard. I have 2 accounts and 2 seperate Gmails for them So I have one account open and add message tab beside it. Click Gmail on Google homepage, then open a new tab and add my 2nd account and add it's message tab. GREAT HUH? well all the fkn tabs are light blue and can't change them

The problem with this is.....I'd rather have a tab be a different color so I know that I read it already yet to feep it open until I'm done with my STUDY.