Tabbed Browsing Tips

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 all major browsers now support tabbed browsing. Below are various tips to improve your browsing using tabs.

1. Clicking on any link with your middle mouse button or wheel opens that link in a new tab. Alternatively you can hold down your CTRL key in IE and Firefox and click a link to open that link in a new tab.
2. Clicking on an open tab with your middle mouse button closes that tab.
3. Mozilla Firefox users can middle-click the back button to open a previous page in a new tab.
4. Pressing CTRL + T opens a new tab in IE, Firefox, and Opera.
5. Pressing CTRL + Shift + T will undo the closed tab. Alternatively right clicking on a portion of the tab bar also displays this option.
6. Firefox and IE users can hold down CTRL and press 1 through 0 on their keyboard to open that respected tab.
7. Right-clicking the active tab gives you an option to close all other non-active tabs.

Re-open a Firefox Tab That You Accidentally Closed

Do you ever accidentally close a tab in Firefox, then want to get back to a website that you were exploring in that tab?
It happens to me a couple of times every day – I click on a link, and when I'm finished reading that page, I close the tab. Oops! That link hadn't opened in a new tab, and now I've lost the original page that I was reading.

Re-open a Closed Tab From the History Menu

Fortunately, Firefox remembers what you've had open, and stores those tabs in its History.

To re-open a closed tab:

1. Click the History Menu
   
2. Click Recently Closed Tabs, to see a list of web page names.
   
3. Click the name of the web page that you want to re-open.

Re-open the Last Closed Tab From the Shortcut Menu

You can also re-open the last closed tab by using a shortcut menu:

1. Double-click in an empty area of the tab strip, for example, to the right of the last tab.
   
2. In the shortcut menu that appears, click Undo Close Tab.

Re-open the Last Closed Tab From the KeyBoard Shortcut key

•   Ctrl +Shift +T