Why to embrace Firefox 3.6's new-tab ethos, Stephen Shankland, Webware (Nov 25)
There's a lot more to tabs than meets the eye. Stephen Shankland is a tab-master at getting better browsing productivity as he exploits new handling at Firefox and Chrome. He compares those to IE8, Opera, and Safari.
Firefox 3.6 will open a new tab next to the active tab when you open a link. This keeps related pages together.
If you're tabbing through a lot of content this could keep the process orderly.
"There's a pattern to how I spawn the dozens of tabs I use as a day progresses. On a variety of pages--Gmail, Google Reader, Yahoo Finance, somebody's blog post--I'll encounter a host of links to other pages. I'll middle-click my mouse button to open interesting pages as background tabs, then use Ctrl-Tab to switch to the new pages when I'm ready. I repeat this pattern many times a day. "
Posted by Gwen at November 27, 2009 05:15 PM