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Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Keep Better Tabs on Your Legal Nurse Consulting Information

Out of all the web browsers, Internet Explorer® (IE) and Firefox® lead the pack in number of users. Tech-types and cool Certified Legal Nurse Consultants play with Google®’s Chrome® browser and a few use Apple®’s Safari®. Just like opinions, everyone has one – a favorite browser that is.

I’m a Firefox fan because Internet Explorer is too riddled with security issues. I’ve toyed with Chrome and find it easy to use, stable but terribly invasive. Safari for Windows® seems underdeveloped so I’ve given up on that one and prefer to play with the big three (Chrome, Firefox and IE8). I have downloaded the Web of Trust add-on for all three browsers to help me avoid websites with bad reputations. I recommend that you do the same to protect your legal nurse consulting business’s computer. Web browsers are prime points of entry for malware and Web of Trust can help Certified Legal Nurse Consultants avoid trouble.

But the purpose of today’s blog is how to get more out of your favorite web browser – that is if it’s IE8, Firefox 3 or Chrome. For the websites that you visit on a regular basis, you probably have them bookmarked so that you can quickly start a browsing session. Wouldn’t you like to open your top three or even five or more sites all at once? To quote Alec Baldwin’s character in It’s Complicated, “I like it” and I’m sure you will too.

Web browsers now have the ability to open many different webpages or different websites in what are called “tabs.” You can have multiple “tabs” that look like old-fashioned file folder tabs running along the top of your web browser and each tab can be a different webpage. If you use tabs when you first open your browser, it can load all the pages you want at one time. Then you simply switch back and forth between tabs.

Here’s how you do it for IE8, Firefox 3.5+ and even Chrome 5.0+:

Starting with Internet Explorer, open IE and click Tools then Internet Options. Next make sure the General tab is selected. You’ll see this screen:

Simply type in the URLs of the websites you want to open each time you start IE8 on a separate line and in the order you want them to open. Then click Apply.

Next click the Settings button under Tabs (it’s a little lower on that same screen). Make sure to check the boxes as checked in the screen shot below. Some people might want to check the box, “Warn me when closing multiple tabs.” This will alert you that you have multiple tabs open and will keep you from losing all your open tabs when you attempt to close one tab in your browser. This is a common mistake people make when first adapting to tabbed browsing.

Click OK, then on the next screen click OK again. You may need to restart your IE8 browser, but it will be worth it.

If you’re a Firefox user, it’s a little more difficult yet easier at the same time. In Firefox 3.6 (it should work with earlier versions but 3.6 is the version I’m on so I can’t tell you) you simply start Firefox, click Tools, Options and then General. In the Home Page box, type in the URLs of the websites you want to open when Firefox opens in the order you want to see them. Separate each one with the “|” character, usually found on the “\” key above the “Enter” key on your keyboard.

Next click Tabs at the top of the Options page and make sure the boxes shown below are checked:

Click OK and restart your Firefox browser. Your pages should open right up. If it’s your Facebook or another page that needs a login and password, you can store them in your browser.

If you’re one of those high-tech-tipping Certified Legal Nurse Consultants who uses anything Google because it’s cooler than anything else (except CLNC® Apple-product users) start your Chrome browser and click the monkey-wrench-looking Tools icon, then Options. Next, on the Basics tab, click the radio button beside “Open the following pages.” Then click the Add button. You can either type in the URLs of the pages you want or select them from your history or bookmarks. When you’ve selected the one you want (or typed it in), click Add and you’re ready to add in the next URL. Click Close when done.

Safari users are out of luck – unless someone can give me a tech tip on how to enable this feature in Safari. The browser supports tabs, I’m just not sure how to make it open multiple tabs at once.

One more tip for legal nurse consultants that comes from a previous Tech Tip, set your browser (or even tweak your Google settings) to open links in a new tab and you’ll never lose your original search results again. You can also mine that Tech Tip for more browser tips.

Now my CLNC® amigos, you’ll work smarter, not harder when you open your favorite pages all at once, you’ll save time searching through your bookmark bar for those pages. Using this Tech Tip, you can quickly scan your prime sites and then get on with your day. As a SysAdmin, I use one browser to make sure all the LegalNurse.com websites are up and running and another browser to hold my sites of interest.

Keep on Techin with Tabs!
Tom

2 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Keep Better Tabs on Your Legal Nurse Consulting Information

  1. Tom! I can’t believe I did this and it actually works!! Thank you!! It seems so small, but when you are researching or just have much to “look up” this really does help! I had seen the choice to “open in a new tab” in the past and I guess I just never thought about what it meant. Good grief!
    Muchas Gracias ms Amigos.

    Hope all is well with you and yours. Thanks for these great weekly posts! I love this. You seem to know how to keep it “simple” for us! Especially people like me! Thanks!

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