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2. Choose Open Link in New Tab from the menu that appears. The linked page appears in a new tab at the end of the tab strip. A small image animates to the left of the page title until the page finishes loading, as shown in Figure 7-2. The current page remains the visible page, so you can continue reading without interruption. Figure 7-2: When you open a Web site in a new tab, an animation appears until the page has finished loading. 3. When you’re ready to view the new Web site, simply click the tab. Tip Opening links in new tabs can be a one-step process. If you have a middle mouse button, just middle-click the link you want to open. You can also middle-click a tab itself to close the Web site. Although most mice don’t have traditional middle buttons, they typically offer a scroll wheel between the left and right buttons that doubles as a middle button when you press it. If your mouse doesn’t have a middle button, you can hold Ctrl (or on the Mac) while left-clicking a link to open it in a new tab. The ability to open linked Web pages in new tabs is perhaps most handy when you need to open a large number of links, such as when you’re comparison shopping online or when you’re navigating search results. For example, suppose you search Google for an analysis of Hamlet. In the prehistoric days before tabbed browsing, you’d probably click the first result and, if the resulting page wasn’t what you wanted, go back and click the second result. Then you’d rinse and repeat until you found what you were looking for. Tip With tabbed browsing, you can open all the pages you find intriguing, each in its own tab, and keep the source page open in its original tab. Even if you open multiple pages in rapid succession, Firefox immediately gets to work on loading them simultaneously while you keep reading. By the time you’re ready to look at the new tabs, they should be ready and waiting for you. Navigating among Web sites in tabs One important difference between windows and tabs is that each window gets its own toolbars, whereas tabs must share the same set. For example, the address in the Location Bar reflects the address of the current tab. Navigation can be a little confusing at first. Firefox remembers the history of where you’ve been on the Web and allows you to go back and forth by using the Back and Forward buttons in the toolbar. The important thing here to remember is that Firefox remembers your history for each tab that you’re using. Consider the case where you have two tabs open, both displaying Google. If you switch to the second tab and load Yahoo!, you can click Back to return to Google. However, if you were to switch to the first tab, you would notice that you can’t click Back, even though it’s the same button you could click a moment ago. Firefox remembers your tracks in each tab but still allows the tabs to share the same button. Rearranging tabs When you open a new tab, Firefox positions the new tab to the right of all your existing tabs. However, you might often find that you want to group related tabs together to switch between them quickly. Changing a tab’s position in Firefox is as simple as dragging the tab to a new location on the tab bar. As you drag the tab along the bar, a purple arrow indicates the new position of the tab should you decide to drop it there. (Figure 7-3, which appears later in this chapter, shows you the arrow.) Figure 7-3: If you have multiple home pages, each page opens in a separate tab. Closing tabs What, closing tabs already? Has the magical journey ended? Fraid so. But this is why millions of people have fallen in love with tabbed browsing: It’s so simple to understand, and yet it makes surfing the Web much more enjoyable. Closing tabs is as easy as opening them, which is actually more important than it sounds – after all, tabbed browsing is about reducing clutter, and nothing

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