Getting Organised
One of the features I like about the Firefox browser is the tab function. Of course, Internet Explorer now has it, too, but at the time I started using FF, IE didn’t.
I enjoyed being able to see all the different sites in the same browser window instead of having to Alt+Tab from window to window (something similar to channel surfing on TV). But the way I surf the Net, I would usually end with way too many tabs which made it hard to quickly go to a particular site on one of the tabs. The width of the screen can only accommodate a certain number of tabs so that eventually, a right arrow would appear which I would have to click on to see the tabs beyond the right edge of the screen.
So my Internet surfing was getting out of hand. I found myself thinking about it the other day and decided to try and get organised in this area of my life.
What I’ve done is to group my surfing and have browser windows open for similar sites. So, all my favourites go in one browser window, each in its own tab. All the blogs I frequent go in another browser window, each in its own tab. Even the two websites I manage get their own windows when I am updating their content, with one tab for the updating work, and another tab to preview.
Now, I’m feeling a little more in control of my Internet surfing. Instead of having one browser window with way too many tabs, I have at least three browser windows with those tabs spread among them.
Oh, I’m now using Google Chrome which has a cleaner interface and offers the tab function, too.
