While true tabbed browsing was impossible due to RAM limits, the Xpress browser introduced "Background Fetching." You could load a link in the background while reading the current page. When you switched to it, the page was already rendered. This masked the latency of the Java runtime.
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Can run lightweight web apps built with HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript. Tabbed Browsing: While true tabbed browsing was impossible due to