Working With Tabs
Working With Tabs
on Mac or Shift + Control on Windows
and click the link. This will open the page
Like most browsers today, Chrome uses
tabs to open several web pages at once.
You can still open pages in their own
window, but that tends to clutter your
screen and it’s difficult to navigate from
one page to the next.
When we’re on a page and click a link,
the new page will either open in the same
tab or in a new tab. This isn’t something
random. This is how the web page
developer coded the page to open. When
a developer is coding the links, he or she
can choose to have the link open in the
same tab or in a new tab.
in a new tab and bring it to the front.
If you don’t like to use short cut keys,
right click on a link and select open link in
new tab. This will create a new tab with
the link but open it in the background.
You will need to click on the tab to bring it
forward.
There are times when we need to open
another page but keep the current page
open. In this case we can create a new
tab and open another page in that tab. To
the right of any tab is a new tab button.
Clicking this button will create a new
empty tab. We can then enter a page or
With the power of modern browsers
site address. We can also search the
we’re empowered to browse the web the
Internet. There is a shortcut key which
way we want, and tabs help do that
can save you time. On Mac, press
effectively. Let’s begin with the basics.
Command + T or Windows Control + T.
When we’re on a page and click on a
link, we can choose how the linked page
will load. Most pages will automatically
open a link in a new tab, but if a link
doesn’t open in a new tab, press the
Command key on Mac or Control Key on
Windows and click the link. This will force
the link to open in a new tab in the
background.
Most of the time we need to open a link
in a new tab and then view the linked
To close tabs, click on the ‘x’ next to any
tab. You can also use the shortcut keys
Command + W or Control + W.
page. To do this press Shift + Command
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