Using Mozilla Firefox Web Browser: How To Use Tabbed Browsing

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Using Mozilla Firefox Web Browser How To Use
Tabbed Browsing

• By
• Students at University of Maryland, Baltimore
  County
• Dmitry Braun, Kevin Hom, Tim Morrison, Chijioke
  Irrechukwu
• Prepared for Ms. Linda Harris,
• Professor of Technical Writing (ENGL393) at the
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Table of Contents

• Title slide slide 1
• Table of contents slide 2
• History slide 3
• Screenshot and description slide 4
• Opening a tab slide 5
• Switching between tabs slide 6
• Closing a tab slide 7
• Closing a tab (continued) slide 8
• Works cited slide 9

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Tabbed Browsing

• Interesting History
• Tabbed interfaces are 20 years old.
• Only recently have browsers begun to feature this
  capability.
• An Emacs text editor by UniPress pioneered the
  use of multiple tabbed windows in 1988
• Its development began even before then

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Tabbed Browsing

• Tabbed Browsing in Firefox allows loading
  different WebPages in a single window.
• It keeps things neat

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• Opening a New Tab
• There are various ways to open a new Tab
• One way is to click on the File menu and proceed
  to click on the New Tab link
• Also pictured below, it is also possible press
  the Ctrl and T keys together.

• Another easy way to add a tab to your Firefox
  window involves either right clicking on the
  toolbar or on a link (if the goal is to open a
  link) and selecting New Tab

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Switching between Tabs

• Switching between tabs is also easy. There are
  two basic ways to do this.
• Simply click on whichever web page (tab) you
  would like to use. All the tabs are located in
  the tab bar, which is between the web page and
  the weather bar in our screenshot.
• It is also possible to cycle through tabs using
  keyboard hot keys. To cycle backwards, press the
  Ctrl and Page Up keys together. To cycle
  forwards, press the Ctrl and Page Down keys
  together.

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Closing tabs

• There are five basic ways to close tabs.
• One way involves clicking on the File menu and
  then proceeding to click on the Close tab link.

• As pictured above, it is also possible to press
  the Ctrl and W keys together to close a tab.

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More ways to close tabs

• Another way to close a tab is pictured below.
  Clicking on the actual tab in the tab bar and
  then clicking close tab will also do the trick.

• Probably the easiest method to close a tab
  involves clicking the X for the tab in the tab
  bar.
• Finally, if you had a mouse with 3 buttons,
  hovering over the tab in the tab bar and clicking
  the middle button will close your tab.

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Works Cited

• 13 Reasons to use Firefox over IE. Flexbeta. 26
  March 2008
• http//www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?actions
  howid32
• Mozilla Firefox. Wikipedia. 26 December 2008.
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
• Market share for browsers, operating systems and
  search engines. Net Applications. 26 March 2008.
  
• http//marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid
  0qpdt1qpct3qpcal1qptimeframeMqpsp108
• Firefox Keyboard and mouse shortcuts. 25 March
  2008 http//www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Prin
  table.html
• Firefox Add-ons. Mozilla. 30 March 2008
• https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/