Daily reading using tabbed browsing in Firefox

Heidi had blogged about this long ago. And it took me awhile to figure it out & start using tabbed browsing, but now I love it! My bookmarks are organized into work groups allowing me to get to things quickly in a couple of different ways. First I’ll show you what I’m talking about, then how to set it up.

See the little folders just under the address bar? I use these all the time. Here are my categories:

• DSI Related – items related to this site including the newsletter software
• Other sites – favorite digiscrapping websites that I want to access periodically
• ACD Related – how do you think I answer those technical questions?
• All Regulars – every morning I open this folder & go to the bottom & use ‘Open all Tabs’; and Firebox magically opens every one in that order. Then I start reading at our forum & go across. I use this one about 3 times a day!
• Stats – you guessed it – Feedburner is there & I visit that once a day. Google Analytics is also there.

When I click on ‘Open in all Tabs’ this is what it looks like. See all my tabs?

Each one matches with the bookmarks listed above & in that order. Cool, huh?

If you’d like to set this up, then you will need Firefox, of course! Everyone should be using it!

In the Custom Links bar, right click & choose new folder. Provide a Name for your folder. Your new folder will show up in your Links bar. To add bookmarks to it, go to each site & click on the favicon (the icon on the left) & drag it onto the folder. They will go in there.

Some tips about managing the bookmarks in a folder:

• Left click on a folder & you can click & drag the bookmarks in the folder to whatever positions you want them in.
• Right click on the folder & you have a host of other options!

After you have a few folders & want to put them in a different order, I just learned how to do so.

• Under bookmarks
• choose Organize Bookmarks
• click & drag the folders into the order you want

So think about what types of ‘groups of bookmarks’ that you use daily & would like to have easy access to? Then try setting up a folder. If you put a bookmark in a folder & change your mind, simply click on it & drag it onto another folder. Don’t you just love Firefox?

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