How to Use Tabs With Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer's tabbed browsing feature eliminates the hassle of sorting through multiple open browser windows when you need to have more than one webpage open. Instead, you can open multiple pages in the same browser window and quickly access them by clicking on tabs that look similar to tabs in a notebook. You can save a group of tabs to your Favorites menu for future use, and you can even reopen tabs that were open when you last used IE 8, which can be helpful if your browser window freezes or is accidentally closed.
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Instructions
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Open Internet Explorer and locate the tab row located just below the toolbars at the top of the window. Click the "New Tab" button, which is located to the right of the current website's tab, to open a new tab. You can also open a tab by pressing "Ctrl" and "T" on your keyboard.
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Enter the web address you would like to visit as you normally would, and repeat the process to open additional tabs.
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Switch between tabs by clicking on the tab you'd like to bring to the front.
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Save a group of tabs to your favorites by clicking the "Favorites" button. Click the arrow next to "Add to Favorites," and select "Add Current Tabs to Favorites." When you want to open the group of saved tabs, open your Favorites menu, click the folder you want to open and click the arrow to next to the folder to open all of the tabs.
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Try Quick Tabs. The "Quick Tabs" button is located to the left of your open tabs (it looks like four squares). If you have multiple tabs open, just click the "Quick Tabs" button to view thumbnails of all open tabs. You can bring a tab into view by clicking its thumbnail, or close a tab by clicking the "X" in the upper right corner of the thumbnail.
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Close tabs by clicking the "X" on the tab you want to close, or simply click the "X" at the top of the browser window if you want to close all open tabs.
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Access tabs that you have closed during your current browsing session by clicking "Reopen Closed Tabs" on a new tab page. When you open Internet Explorer, you can also choose to open all of the tabs that were open the last time you closed your browser window. Just click "Tools" and "Reopen Last Browsing Session."
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to open a link on a webpage in a new tab, you can right-click it and choose "Open in New Tab," or press "Ctrl" as you click the link or click the link with the wheel of a mouse.
By default, Internet Explorer's new tab page is displayed when you open a new tab. If you want your home page to be displayed, click "Tools," "Internet Options" and "General" to access your tab settings and set your home page as the default start page. To view the new tab page after you have changed your homepage, just type "about:tabs" in the address bar of your browser.
