My favorite browsing tip is to open links to a new tab in your browser so that you don't lose the page/place you are currently reading. To do this, RIGHT-click on the link and select Open Link in New Tab. The new page will open and you can go to that page to read right away, or later, either way, and keep your current page open right where it is.

For example, when I come to the Texas Gardening forum, I skim down the forum, right-click each thread I am interested in reading, opening each one in a new tab. That way I don't have to keep going back and forth, waiting for the thread list to reopen. As I finish reading each thread, I just close the tab at the top. If you don't know this trick, it will change your life!

Carol in Jacksonville

How do you people remember all this!

We're smart! .......... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roselee, I like your tips and of course, you made me laugh.

The opening-links-in-a-new-tab trick is even more useful when doing a Google search:

1) Do your Google search.

2) Right-click on each result that you would like to view, opening them in new tabs.

That way, you 1) don't lose the search results - they stay open on the first tab, 2) don't have to page forward and back, waiting for pages to reload, and 3) can keep open all of the useful results in their separate tabs.

Carol

Another tip is if you have a mouse with a middle button or a scroll wheel that clicks when pressed, you can click on a link using the middle button to open in a new tab. Much faster--single click and no menu navigating.

This thread is for the very smart ONLY.................leaves me out............LOL!!

We learn by using them.

Oh yeah, I'm so smart I kept the Ctrl+F tip written on a little note pad that I referred to since I didn't use it very much.

Finally Figured out that F stood for Find ! ... oh well.

Thank you everyone for the tips! They make life easier for those of us who need them.