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To: JohnM who wrote (127262)	7/24/2005 1:34:06 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793840

What do you use the tabs for? I use them for things I want to view concurrently. Say I'm responding to a post and I want to check something on Google or the dictionary or I want to follow the discussion back a few steps to double-check who said what, I do those things in separate tabs. Or if I'm spending too much time on SI and I want to check what's on TV without losing my place on the board, I pop over to another tab and check Zap2It and pop back. The other use I have for them is to speed things up. If I'm reading, say, the Post, I scan through the front page and right click on any links to articles I want to read to open them in new tabs. That queues them up so I don't forget anything or lose my place. It also allows them to load while I'm doing something else and they're ready for me when I get to them. Or sometimes here on SI someone will include a link that I want to look at later so I open it in a new tab so I don't forget about it. I'm usually pursuing several avenues concurrently when I'm on the computer and it's easy to lose track of something I meant to pursue so the tabs are reminders of things I wanted to read. I like tabs a lot. I don't do anything with them you couldn't do with separate windows, I guess, but separate windows are more resource intensive than tabs and my computer is a few years old now. It would sometimes spit up when I tried to open more than a handful of windows in IE. It doesn't seem to mind however many tabs I have open. Right now I have five tabs--this one, bloglines, and three items I found on bloglines probably an hour ago that I haven't gotten to yet because I got distracted by this discussion.

To: JohnM who wrote (127262)	7/24/2005 1:39:38 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793840

What do you use the tabs for? I use tabs to go back and forth between various windows without having to have them at the bottom. It is the best feature of Firefox, IMO. For instance, if you are on your home page, and want to view bloglines, hit the button and your window automatically switches to it in the same window, and your home page and bloglines both show as two tabs at the top. Then when you open a post you see in bloglines, it automatically opens in the same window and adds a third tab at the top. If you open another post from bloglines, it opens in your window, and adds a fourth tab. You bounce back and forth by simply clicking the tabs. You can keep the tabs to a minimum by closing unused ones, or by clicking on the new link and sliding up to an open tab. It will usurp that tab selection and open your new selection in the same tab. Make sure you have the extension, "Tab browser preferences," added to FireFox. When you are reading an article, and it has a link you would like open, you right click the link and hit "open in new tab." You can then wait until you are done reading to switch to it, or hit the tab. Everything is right in front of you, you never have to figure out which window you want to be in. I would suggest that when you check for Firefox extensions, you add all the ones they list as favorites. They won't get in your way if you don't use them.