Windows Vista Annoyances

Tabbed Browsing

Beloved by hard-core surfers the world over, tabbed browsing is a way to keep a bunch of Web pages open simultaneously—in a single, neat window, without cluttering up your taskbar with a million buttons.

Figure 9-3 illustrates.

Figure 9-3. When you Ctrl+Shift-click a link, or type an address and press Alt+Enter or -Enter, you open a new tab, not a new window as you ordinarily would. You can now pop from one open page to another by clicking the tabs above the window, or close one by clicking its X button (or pressing Ctrl+W).

Shortcut-O-Rama

Turning on tabbed browsing unlocks a whole raft of Internet Explorer shortcuts and tricks, which are just the sort of thing power surfers gulp down like Gatorade:

• ▸ To open a new, empty tab in front of all others, press Ctrl+T (for tab), or click the New Tab stub identified in Figure 9-3, or double-click anywhere in the empty area of the tab row. From the empty tab that appears, you can navigate to any site you want.

• ▸ To open a link into a new tab, Ctrl-click it. Or click it with your mouse wheel.

  Or, if you’re especially slow, right-click it and, from the shortcut menu, choose Open in New Tab.

  Note

  Ctrl-clicking a link opens that page in a tab behind the one you’re reading. That’s a fantastic trick when you’re reading a Web page and see ...