Pogue's Basics: Opening up a new tab

Pogue’s Basics: Opening up a new tab

Suppose one day you decide to surf the web, it could happen!

By now I hope you know the trick of clicking a link that it opens up a new tab. It’s great when you have a list of search results and you can go through them one at a time, to find the one that you are looking for.

On the mac, you do that by holding down the command key and clicking the link.

On Windows, do you that holding down the control key. So far, so good.

The thing is, when you open up a new tab like that, does it appear in front of your list or behind your list? Turns out in most browsers that is up to you.

In Safari you go into preferences and just change this setting here.

But what if you use Chrome?

In Chrome, when you control or command the link, the tab always opens behind the page you are already on.

Here’s my trick.

If you would like that to open in front in stead, go to the chrome extensions page by clicking the Windows drop down menu and click “Extensions.” Download the free extension called “tab activate.“

From now on, when you control or command click a link, the new tab will open in front of the list you started from. When you are done looking it over, you just close that tab and your original list is just waiting for you.

Your welcome.