02 Nov 08 Google Chrome – Dynamic Browsing
Browse: Tabbed browsing
Google Chrome tabs gives you the greatest flexibility to manage the websites you’re browsing. You can take advantage of many keyboard shortcuts for Google Chrome windows and tabs. Click one of the links below to learn how to browse the Internet with tabs.
Click the + icon next to the last tab. Or do the following:
- Click the Tools menu
. - Select New tab. To open a new window instead, select New window.
The new tab is automatically placed as the last tab to the right. However, if you click a link that opens in a new tab from an existing tab, the new tab is positioned next to the tab you’re currently in so that related tabs are grouped together.Google Chrome puts a brand new tab to use by filling the page with useful information. With one click, you can get to the web resources you use most often.
- When you load a webpage in a tab, a slow-spinning gray circle on the tab lets you know that Google Chrome is connecting to the website servers. The circle turns blue and spins faster once loading is in progress. Once the webpage is completely loaded, the icon changes to the website’s graphic. While loading, webpage status information also appears in a shaded box at the bottom left of your browser window.
- When you download a file, an arrow appears on the tab to signify a download in progress.
Like other browsers, Google Chrome lets you jump between different webpages you’ve visited within the current tab.
- Use the forward and backward arrows on the browser toolbar to go to webpages you just visited.
- Click and hold either of the arrows to see a drop-down menu of more webpages from your current browsing session. Select Show Full History to access the History page, where you can view all the webpages you’ve ever visited while using Google Chrome in standard mode.
- Reload a webpage by clicking the circular button next to the arrows on the browser toolbar.
To change the order of the tabs displayed, simply click the tab you wish to relocate and drag it to its new location.
You can move tabs to either a brand new window or another open window.
- To move a tab into a new window, simply click and drag the desired tab out of the browser window. If successful, you see a thumbnail of the tab that you are moving.
- To move it to a different window, drag the tab from its original window to the top tab bar in its destination window. The tab should pop in automatically.
To open the same website in a new tab in the same window, right-click the tab and select Duplicate. Your original tab remains open.
The easiest way to close a tab is to click the x icon in the tab (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+W). Alternatively, right-click a tab to see more options:
- Close other tabs: Close all tabs except the tab that you’ve right-clicked.
- Close tabs to the right.
- Close tabs associated with this tab: If you click a link that opens in a new tab, those two tabs are now associated. Selecting this option close all associated tabs, but leaves the original tab open.
Closing the last tab open also closes the window. Tabs and applications operate independently, so if one tab malfunctions and crashes, it doesn’t affect non-related webpages opened in other tabs or the overall responsiveness of Google Chrome.
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