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An introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 2

The tabbing function

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.  Mozilla Firefox has however added a very helpful function to the browser, called tabbing.

Open your Mozilla Firefox browser, 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.


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As you see by pressing "Ctrl-T" I 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:


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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 set the startpages manually, and if there's more than one, divided them with a | mark, and Firefox will open them in separate tabs. 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:


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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").



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With the most recent version of Firefox, it is also possible to re-organize the tabs.  If you click on one of the tabs, hold down the button and drag it sideways, you can line them up as you prefer with the help of the purple arrow you see above.
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 1 (Installation)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 2 (Tabbed browsing)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 3 (Basics and pop-ups)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 4 (Extensions)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 5 (Browsing history)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 6 (Download manager)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 7 (Printing)
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 8 (Bookmarks)