5. Tabbed Browsing

Figure 9.5. Firefox Tabs

Firefox Tabs

Firefox allows you to browse many web pages at a time using a very nice feature called “tabbed browsing”. Instead of opening a new browser window every time you want to view another page, you can open a new tab.

Clicking on this button (at the right end of the tab list) allows you to close the current tab. Right-clicking on it gives you some options such as opening new tabs, reloading current and all tabs, as well as closing them. You can also open a new tab through the File->New Tab sub-menu, or simply by using the Ctrl-T keyboard shortcut. On the other hand, Ctrl-W closes the current tab.