Transcript Using Mozilla Firefox Web Browser: How To Use Tabbed

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
Table of Contents
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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
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
Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed Browsing in Firefox allows loading
different WebPages in a single window.
It keeps things neat
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”
Switching between Tabs
Switching between tabs is also easy. There are two basic ways to do this.
1. 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.
2. 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.
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.
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.
Works Cited
 “13 Reasons to use Firefox over IE”. Flexbeta. 26 March
2008
 http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=
32
 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=0&qpdt=
1&qpct=3&qpcal=1&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108
 “Firefox Keyboard and mouse shortcuts”. 25 March 2008
http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.
html
 “Firefox Add-ons”. Mozilla. 30 March 2008
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/