If You Don't Like 'Tabbed Browsing' Then You Don't Know What It Is

Using computers and surfing the internet in general can be fiddly. Too much clicking and moving your mouse around not only wastes time it's also very annoying so any piece of software or trick that can not only save time but makes things a little easier is very welcome.

Chances are 80%-90% of you reading this are doing so using Microsoft's Internet Explorer software. But others who are using the free Mozilla Firefox browser are one step ahead of you because they're utilising 'tabbed browsing' which in a word is fantastic Tabbed browsing means you only have to have the one program open (Firefox) but can have 10 or 20 different websites open at the same time. See the picture below for a visual of this -

The red highlighted area shows 7 different websites open in 'tabs' and all you need to do to visit each one is click on the relevant tab. As you can see tabbed browsing is a major timesaver and something that everyone loves once they've been introduced to the Firefox browser.

Using tabbed browsing is simple, just right click on your mouse over the link you want to open and a new box opens (see below) then click on the 'Open in new tab' button and the website or web page will open behind the present page you're viewing. It is that simple.

Security Is Better

Firefox is also a better browser to use from a security angle, less worms and trojans are written for it as well as the code having less holes in it. Overall upgrading to Firefox is well worth the effort (2 mins) and remember it's 100% free as well.

A Simple Trick Using Tabbed Browsing

Here's a really nice trick that we use in the morning to quickly scan our favourite sites -

• Go to Manage Bookmarks and create a new folder calling it something like 'Morning'
• Then bookmark a collection of sites that you wish to visit say first thing in the morning
• News sites, stockmarket sites, prices, yahoo, Hotmail, weather etc
• Go to Bookmarks again, highlight the folder you're interested in, right click and then click 'open in tabs'
• All those sites will be quickly opened in new tabs and you can quickly and efficiently move from one site to the next
• Using Firefox instead of Microsoft's IE to do this most probably cuts down the amount of clicks by 90%
• This trick is also useful for say booking flights or holidays because you can save and scan many different sites very quickly

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