what is tabbed browsing, and why do I recommend it?

Tabbed browsing has been available in Mozilla Firefox for a long time, but it's also available now in Internet Explorer..

To open a link as a tab: simply right-click on a link, and then select 'open in new tab'.

This allows you to click on lots of links and open them in the background, so they're loaded and ready when you finish checking out the current page your on. And then you can easily and quickly jump from one to the other.

You can even save all of the opened links in one set in your bookmarks or favourites, so they'll open up as a group again later. (In Firefox, select 'bookmark all tabs' from the drop down bookmark menu).

With tabbed browsing you can click on as many links as you want. Then when you want to view them, just click on the tabs along the top of the page.

To close a tab, click on the red X box on the right hand side of the tab.

Using tabbed browsing you won't lose the place where you started from, so once you've checked out the links you can still go back to the original page and continue looking around...

Or you can open the links and bookmark them to read some other time.

This is perfect for when you've got a page full of interesting links, such as Maddie's recommended links and reading list (for information about choices for cancer treatments), or the notes and sources for the text of the Art of Peace novel chapters.

Happy browsing.

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