Mozilla FireFox Adopts Chrome Tabs

Mozilla FireFox Adopts Chrome Tabs

Author JoeDigital

Picking up on a popular trend, Mozilla has announced a slight modification to how the tab bar on Firefox will work. Google, when it introduced the Chrome browser, has instituted a new wave of innovation in web browser design, and the way tabs are handled is one that is easily identifiable.

Originally, when you right-clicked, and selected “open in new tab,” that new tab window would appear at the very end f your list of tabs. Logically, this creates a chronological order for your tabs, but doesn’t reveal any sort of organization.

The new tab method, introduced in Google Chrome, and copied first my Microsoft, and now by Firefox, groups tabs of similar type together. If you right click in a tab, and open a link in a new tab, that tab will appear immediately adjacent to the tab window you are currently working in. For research, this allows you to open groups of related documents, and keep each part of the research isolated.

Admittedly, the new way that tabs works will take a little getting used to. Another feature that will definitely come in handy during the learning process is the “undo close tab” feature, which can re-open tabs from the session history.

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