Scroll-Wheel Functionality in Office 2007 Tabs

It was said that the introduction of the unified ribbon toolbar in Office 2007 would increase the productivity and efficiency of its users. With my experience thus far, this has really yet to be the case.

However, today, I accidentally stumbled across and interesting feature that I think could be wisely used in other tab controlled interfaces (e.g. modern web browsers). While your mouse is in the boundary of any of the application ribbons in Office 2007, if you scroll your mouse wheel, the tab index advances (scroll up) or regresses (scroll down). It seems to be very quick and responsive on my system.

I find this to be very useful for getting to content even quicker and would be quite cool to see this in Firefox or even other applications like Photoshop and Illustrator where tabbed content lives on.