Firefox improves the browsing experience with tabbed browsing. Through a single browser window, you can open multiple web pages. Each web page is accessible through a separate tab in the browser window, which enables you to quickly jump between multiple pages that you are reviewing or monitoring. Through tabbed browsing, you can easily track multiple web pages at the same time.

Table Of Contents

• Opening tabs
• Opening an empty tab
• Opening a link in a new tab
• Opening bookmarked tabs
• Tab navigation
• Selecting a tab
• Jumping between tabs in a window
• Closing a tab
• Re-ordering tabs
• Bookmarking tabs
• Bookmarking a single tab
• Bookmarking all opened tabs
• Customizing tabbed browsing
• Re-opening a closed tab

Opening tabs

Opening an empty tab

1. To open a new tab,
   1. In the Firefox menu, select the File, and then select New Tab or
   2. Press Ctrl+T
      • (Mac) ⌘+T
2. An empty tab is opened in the current browser window. To open a web page in the tab, enter a web address in the Location bar, perform a search in the Search bar, or select a bookmark.

Opening a link in a new tab

You can also open a hyperlink in a new tab using any of these methods:

• Right-click the link, and select Open Link in New Tab.
• Enter a web address in the Location bar or Search bar, and press Alt+Enter
  • (Mac) Option+Return
• If your mouse has a wheel, or a middle button, you can press it on a link.
• Hold down Ctrl as you click on a link.
  • (Mac) ⌘+click

Opening bookmarked tabs

To open a set of tabs that you have bookmarked, in the Bookmarks menu open the folder with the bookmarks you want to open. Select Open All in Tabs.

Tab navigation

Selecting a tab

You can select a tab by clicking it. The contents of the tabbed page are displayed, and the tab is now active.

When many tabs are opened, Firefox may be able to display on-screen only some of the available tabs. To select an opened tab that is not on-screen:

• Click the scroll buttons at the edges of the tab bar, or

• Click the drop-down indicator on the right side of the tab bar to display a list of all available tabs and select the tab to which you wish to go, or

• Click your mouse's wheel on the tab bar and scroll it up or down.

Jumping between tabs in a window

You can quickly jump between tabs in the opened window.

• To jump to the next tab, press Ctrl+Tab.

Closing a tab

To close a tab:

• Click the X button on the tab you want to close, or

• To close the current tab, press Ctrl+W, or
  • (Mac) ⌘+W
• Right-click the tab, and select Close Tab.

If you close a tab accidentally, you can restore it as long as you have not yet closed the window completely. See Re-opening a closed tab.

Re-ordering tabs

You can re-order tabs in the current window by dragging and dropping them. Click the tab you want to move and, while holding down the mouse button, drag the tab to the desired location. A purple arrow indicates the destination of the moved tab. To place the tab in the indicated destination, release the mouse button.

Bookmarking tabs

Bookmarking a single tab

1. To bookmark a tab, right-click it and select Bookmark This Tab....
2. In the Add Bookmark dialog, enter a new name for the bookmark, if desired.
3. To add the bookmark, select the bookmark folder in which to place it. Then, click OK.
4. The tab is bookmarked.

Bookmarking all opened tabs

1. To bookmark all currently opened tabs, right-click a tab and select Bookmark All Tabs....
   
   
   
2. Enter a name for the folder to contain the bookmarks for the opened tabs.
   
   
   
3. Select the folder in which to place the new folder containing your bookmarked tabs. Then, click OK.
4. All tabs are now bookmarked in the same folder.

Customizing tabbed browsing

1. Open the Firefox options panel.
   • (Windows) At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu, and select Options....
   • (Mac) On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu, and select Preferences....
   • (Linux) At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Edit menu, and select Preferences....
     
     
     

• New pages should be opened in. For web pages that open new windows, you can define whether they appear in new windows or in a new tab in the current window.
• Warn me when closing multiple tabs. When you try to close multiple tabs or windows at the same time, Firefox can prompt you for confirmation before doing it.
• Warn me when opening multiple tabs might slow down Firefox. To prevent accidentally opening too many bookmarks in separate tabs at the same time, Firefox can prompt you for confirmation before doing it.
• Always show the tab bar. When the current window contains only one tab, the tab bar can be optionally displayed. If the window contains multiple tabs, the tab bar is displayed.
• When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately. You can configure Firefox to display a new tab as soon as it is opened. Otherwise, Firefox displays the current tab.

Re-opening a closed tab

Firefox retains a history of tabs that you have closed in the current window.

• To re-open the last closed tab, right-click the tab bar and choose Undo Close Tab.
• To select from a list of closed tabs, click the History menu at the top of the Firefox window, and hover your mouse over Recently Closed Tabs, to display the titles of the last viewed page in each tab.