FFF - a tabbed browser does exactly what you're suggesting but without the mess!
Everything is in a single window with a line of captioned tabs across the top. Windows users will be used to seeing the same thing in the video display section of their control panel. Beautifully simple, intuitive and so, so easy to hide behind a convincing spreadsheet or other less career limiting workpiece
Again, without trying to introduce any bias from us, you'll find these browsers are smaller and far more fleet of foot than Internet Explorer - even on well run, technically competent sites
Rob