Tabbed Browsing

Another one of the nice features of Firefox, is the use of "tabbed browsing". This means, you can easily switch between multiple web pages in one browser window ... as opposed to having multiple browser windows open to view each page. Once you've gotten used to tabbed browsing, you'll wonder how you did without it.



The easiest way to use tabbed browsing, is to right-click on a link and select "open URL in new tab". This will open a new tab, so you can view the page you just opened, and by clicking on the "tab" of the page you just came from, you can go back to your original page. By clicking on the "tabs", you can easily jump back and forth between pages.

When your done viewing the page, you can close the tab by either clicking on the "X" on the tab bar, or right-click the tab, and select "Close Tab".

You can also customize how the tabs behave, by going to Tools > Options > Tabbed Browsing , and play around with the settings until you get what you like. The "default" works just fine if you don't want to worry about customizing things.