An Introduction to Tabbed Browsing

How does Firefox tabbed browsing work?

This question was answered on June 21, 2006. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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Now, this is one of the best features of Mozilla Firefox Almost all of my time online I need to have many browsers open at the same time, and honestly, it can get quite messy sometimes Mozilla Firefox has however added a very helpful function to the browser, called tabbing Firefox was not the first browser to integrate tabbed browsing; in fact the concept is almost as old as the Internet as we know it Read on to learn how to enhance your web browsing with tabs:

Open your Mozilla Firefox browser, and then press Ctrl-T at the same time Your browser will now open a new tab that can be used, in the same browser window

As you see by pressing Ctrl-T you now have 2 tabs in the same browser You can alternate between these by pressing Ctrl-Tab If you need more browsing tabs simply press Ctrl-T again.

If you want the browser to open multiple sites when you start the browser, this is possible Go Tools > Options...and you will see this choice in the General selection:

As you see the browser here gives you a variety of options, you can 1 Use the pages you're currently browsing; 2 Choose startup pages from you bookmarks; 3 Use a blank page As you see in the screenshot, you can also write in the home page(s) manually, and if there's more than one, divided with a | mark Use as many pages as you like.

There are more ways to control how tabs work as well, if you right-click on a tab, you'll see something like this:

Here you're able to create new tabs, reload the current tab (reload is also available via Ctrl-R), reload all tabs, close other tabs and finally close tab (also available via Ctrl-W).

More Firefox tips to come!

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Posted by Chad of Data Doctors on June 21, 2006

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