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Keeping tabs on Firefox tabs
Pt. 5 of 10 | 1:43 |
Friday December 12, 2008
Firefox 101
Friday December 12, 2008
Back in the day, having more than one web site open at a time meant having more than one web browser window open. Firefox popularized "tabbed browsing," having more than one website open in a single web browser session
Since Firefox came on the scene, both Internet Explorer and Safari have added this feature. It's now standard equipment in a web browser.
Since Firefox came on the scene, both Internet Explorer and Safari have added this feature. It's now standard equipment in a web browser.
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Quicktime Show Notes
Tabbed browsing simplifies having more than one website open at a time by opening sub-windows within the main Firefox browser session.
To open a new tab:
There are many ways to open a new tab:
- Click on File and choose New Tab.
- Right click on the tabs bar and select New Tab from the context menu.
- Press Ctrl + T on a Windows machine, Cmnd + T on a Mac.
- Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmnd (Mac) when clicking on a link to open it in a new tab.
- Tabs can be organized and moved around in the tabs bar by clicking and dragging.
- Click on the X to close a tab.
- If you mistakenly close a tab and want to get it back, go to History and hover over Recently Closed Tabs then select the tab from the menu that appears.
To open a new tab:
There are many ways to open a new tab:
- Click on File and choose New Tab.
- Right click on the tabs bar and select New Tab from the context menu.
- Press Ctrl + T on a Windows machine, Cmnd + T on a Mac.
- Hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmnd (Mac) when clicking on a link to open it in a new tab.
- Tabs can be organized and moved around in the tabs bar by clicking and dragging.
- Click on the X to close a tab.
- If you mistakenly close a tab and want to get it back, go to History and hover over Recently Closed Tabs then select the tab from the menu that appears.
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