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Tabbed browsing makes browsing the Web more convenient. This section describes how to use tabbed browsing and how to customize it to make browsing the Web even faster.
Tabbed browsing lets you open tabs, each displaying a web page, within a single &brandShortName; window. This frees up space on your desktop.
You can also "browse ahead" with tabbed browsing. If you are on a long web page, you can load links in new tabs. The linked web pages will load in tabs while you read the current page.
To open a new tab, press &accelKey;+T, select
, or double-click an empty space in the Tab Bar.To load a link in a tab, you can do one of the following:
To open a URL in the Location Bar in a new tab, enter the URL and press &altKey;+&enterKey;.
Tabs are displayed in the order you open them, which may not always be what you want. To move a tab to a different location within a &brandShortName; window, simply drag it there using your mouse. While you are dragging the tab, &brandShortName; displays a small indicator to show where the tab will be moved. Alternately, you can use keyboard shortcuts to move tabs within a window if desired.
To close the current tab, press &accelKey;+W, click the Close Tab button, middle-click the tab, or select
.To close all tabs other than the current one, right-clickpress &ctrlKey;, click on the tab and choose .
While it's easy to select tabs with a mouse, you can also cycle through tabs using the keyboard: use &ctrlKey;+Page Up (or &ctrlKey;+Tab) and &ctrlKey;+Page Down (or &ctrlKey;+&shiftKey;+Tab). You can also select the first tab by pressing &accelKey;&altKey;+1, and so on up to the 9th tab with &accelKey;&altKey;+9. To move a tab within a window, press &accelKey; with the appropriate key from Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Up Arrow, or Down Arrow. To move a tab to the beginning or end of the tabs in the window, use &accelKey; with either Home or End, respectively.
To bookmark a set of tabs:
Instead of using only one web page as your homepage, you can make your home page a set of tabs. Select your favorite web sites and open them in tabs in a single window. Select &pref.menuPath; and open the General panel. Under Home Page, press the Use Current Pages button. Now when you press the Home button, your favorite web sites will load with just a click.
To customize tabbed browsing, select &pref.menuPath; and open the Tabs panel. Descriptions of the &pref.plural; there can be found under Tabbed Browsing.
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