Tommie doing his part for the internet once again

Today my friends we will learn about firefox and tabbed browsing. I have so led you all astray. Giving you firefox without tabbed browsing is like giving Luke a lightsaber and not showing him the 'on' button.

Extensions like the word says extends the functionality of the bowser. That means it gives you more useful options.

The first thing we will learn about is tabbed browsing.

With IE if you want to look at two different webpages at the same time you have to open two intances of IE like this.



Now then that is fine if you are working with two pages but what if you are doing a search on something flowers native to Amsterdam? Well of course you would go to your favorite search browser and type in flowers native to Amsterdam which will give you several results. Like this.


To open all those results that would mean you would have to open 30 IE windows! As you well know that can be confusing as hell when you are switching back from one window to the next it's all very jumbled. Firefox we do the same search and we have the option to 'open with in new tab'


Now then if you click on all the search options you see up top that in each tab there is a different webside. Could you imagine trying to put those all on your desktop? On top of that I've never left the search screen so I can go to page 2 and not lose the search results I've already gotten. Pretty neat huh?


Now then you can make Firefox automatically do that by changing the configuration file or config file for short. What you do is type about:config the url text box. This give you a list of all the configurable items in Firefox. Looks daunting, huh?


Well don't worry about that becasue we know where we are going. Below the url text box is a text box named filter. In that box we are going to type browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs (you can actually copy and paste this value to save time) as you can see below Firefox filters your results. Your setting is probably set to false. Double click on that value and switch it to true.



Now then close your browser and re-open it. We will now go to Tools->Options



Then select Advanced. Don't be scared Advanced won't hurt you. If you're scared go to Church. Scroll down to Tabbed Browsing and make your options look like the ones in this picture.



Now then close your browser and re-open it. Now when you click on a link it will open in a new tab. It's great when you go to news sites or you have mutiple sites/links you want to look at, at the same time.