Tabbed browsing lets you open several web pages within a single Firefox window, each displaying in its own tab.

Table Of Contents

• Creating and Loading Tabs
• Moving Tabs
• Closing and Restoring Tabs
• Customizing Tabbed Browsing
• Tips and Tricks
• Bookmarks and Tabbed Browsing
• Home Page as Tabs
• Keyboard shortcuts

Creating and Loading Tabs

There are several ways to open a new tab:

• Hold down the CtrlCmd key and press T.
• At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click the File menu and select New Tab
• Double-click an empty space in the Tab bar.

To load a link in a tab, you can do one of the following:

• Middle-click the link (If you have a mouse wheel, clicking the wheel is equivalent to middle-clicking).
• Drag the link and drop it on an empty space in the Tab bar.
  • (If only one web page is open, the Tab bar may be hidden. See Customizing Tabbed Browsing for information on how to change this.)
• Drag and drop the link onto a an existing tab. The link will open in that tab.
• Right-clickHold down the Ctrl key while you click on the link, and choose Open Link in New Tab from the context menu.

To open a web page from the Location bar in a new tab, type the web page's address, hold down the AltOpt key and press EnterReturn.

Moving Tabs

To move a tab to a different location within Firefox, drag it there using your mouse. While you are dragging the tab, Firefox displays a small indicator to show where the tab will be moved.

Closing and Restoring Tabs

• Click the tab's close button.
  
  
• Hold down the CtrlCmd key and press W.
• Middle-click the tab.
• At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click the File menu and select Close Tab.

To close all tabs other than the current one, right-clickhold down the Ctrl key while you click on the tab and choose Close Other Tabs.

Firefox windows keep a list of tabs you've recently closed:

• Restore any tab by opening the History menu, moving down to the Recently Closed Tabs sub-menu, and selecting the tab you want to re-open.
• Restore all the tabs in the list by opening the History menu, moving down to the Recently Closed Tabs sub-menu, and selecting Open All in Tabs.
• Restore the tab that was last closed by pressing CtrlCmd+Shift+T.

Customizing Tabbed Browsing

To change tabbed browsing settings open the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu and select Options...Preferences..., then select the Tabs panel.

Tips and Tricks

Bookmarks and Tabbed Browsing

To bookmark a set of tabs:

1. Hold down the CtrlCmd and Shift keys and press D or clickClick on the Bookmarks menu and select Bookmark All Tabs to add all the tabs in the current window to a new bookmark folder.
2. To open bookmarks in tabs, open a bookmark folder menu and choose Open in Tabs.

Home Page as Tabs

Instead of using only one web page as your homepage, you can make a set of tabs your home page. Select your favorite websites and open them in tabs in a single window. Open the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu and select Options...Preferences..., then open the Main panel. Under Startup, press the Use Current Pages button. Now when you press the Home button, your favorite websites will load with just a click.
Adding a New Tab Toolbar Button: You can add a New Tab button on the toolbar to easily open new tabs by customizing your toolbars.

Keyboard shortcuts

Firefox has an extensive set of shortcuts related to tabbed browsing. See the full list in Keyboard Shortcuts.