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Personal Technology — Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.: ”
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
If you read a dozen or more online news sites every day, managing them all can be difficult. In the most popular Web browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, you have to laboriously open them one at a time. You can open each in a separate window, but the windows pile up in the task bar at the bottom of the screen, making a visual mess that is hard to navigate.
One good solution is to use a more modern browser with a feature called tabbed browsing. These browsers — such as Firefox for Windows PCs and Apple Computer’s Macintosh models; or Apple’s own Safari browser for the Mac — allow you to open many pages simultaneously, in the same window. Each page is marked by a file-folder-style tab, and you can switch among them by just clicking on the tabs.
But even tabbed browsers have a limit. If you try to open dozens, or scores, of Web pages at once, the tabs either become too small…”
