How not to waste hours following your nose
Posted by dilettante on March 26, 2007
Have you ever visited a web page that has lots of juicy looking links for you to follow? The ABC’s Gateway to Science does that for me, or the Google News.
Displaying one link, then going back, following another link, then going back, and so on, is a really slow way of surfing the ‘net. Displaying a web page in a new window is not effective as it places the web page right over and obscures what you were currently reading. Better, that you can open new web pages behind the current web page (in the same window) that you are reading, to look at when you are ready.
Like most activities using your computer and surfing the WWW, there is more than one way of doing things. But this is the fastest, without resorting to key presses.
Point to the link that you wish to “open” and click the right mouse button (RMB) to display a pop-up menu. Note: If you are not pointing to the link, i.e. your mouse cursor is over the link, a different pop-up menu will be displayed.
The function that you are looking for is “Open Link in New Tab”. You can use your left mouse button (LMB) or right mouse button to select this function from the pop-up menu.
Subsequent web pages are downloaded behind your current web page. To view the newly download web page, select the appropriate tab at the top of your browser window. Note: Select is usually equivalent to clicking the LMB once.You can open as many tabs as you feel comfortable with, and closing them is similar to closing a window. Look for the button with the cross alongside the row of tabs.
If no amount of clicking the RMB displays an option to open the link in a new tab, then may I suggest that you download and install the Mozilla Firefox browser.
