I solved all these by tweaking some settings and installing one extension … read on …<\/p>\n
I am using Chrome, but you can do all this for Firefox too<\/p>\n
Tab Tip 1:<\/strong> Default tabs to open on startup<\/span><\/h4>\nI use the same set of tabs during my workday. Use “preferences” to add a set of tabs that will open when you start your browser:<\/p>\n
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Voila! My email, calendar, staff login, Blackboard, to do list and WordPress installation open when I open the browser.<\/p>\n
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Tab Tip 2: Re-open a tab you closed accidentally<\/span><\/h4>\nJust use <CTRL> T . Tab restored!<\/p>\n
UPDATE 19 April 2018 – NO, that opens a new tab … I meant <CTRL> <SHIFT> T<\/strong> – THAT will do the trick<\/p>\nTab Tip 3: Close all those tabs – and have them ready to open again with one click – One Tab<\/span><\/h4>\nThe browser extension, One Tab<\/a> allows you to go from a browser with way too many kittenwar.com<\/a> tabs open:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-04-16_17-17-53.png\")
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To a neat list of links in a single page – taking up far less memory – at the click of an icon:<\/p>\n
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I also use this to quickly create a list of links for an email. Open the tabs you want to share in your browser, turn them into a list of labelled links with OneTab, then copy and paste the links into the document.<\/p>\n
If you want to get to the pages again from the OneTab page, you can either click on the individual link, or use the “Restore All” option to re-open them all together:<\/p>\n
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Tab Tip 4: Lock a group of tabs and have them ready for regular re-use<\/span><\/h4>\nFor 14 weeks of Semester I have eight Blackboard Discussion Boards to check daily. Every semester they are different sites, so have a different URL.<\/p>\n
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So, each semester, I slurp them all up into OneTab , rename them to something sensible and then use the\u00a0 “lock” function to keep them there so they will always be around.<\/p>\n
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Tab Tip 5: Add webpages to the startup screen of your iOs device<\/span><\/h4>\nI check the news headlines and the weather on my iPad every morning. I use Chrome as my browser on iOs, but discovered (with snail<\/a> and Peter<\/a> helping me by double-checking) that there is no way to instantly close all the open tabs. You can on Android. Not on the iPad or iPhone. No really good explanation why.<\/p>\nAs an alternative, I use the feature in Safari that allows me to add webpages to the startup screen, then group them into a folder.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nJust use <CTRL> T . Tab restored!<\/p>\n
UPDATE 19 April 2018 – NO, that opens a new tab … I meant <CTRL> <SHIFT> T<\/strong> – THAT will do the trick<\/p>\n The browser extension, One Tab<\/a> allows you to go from a browser with way too many kittenwar.com<\/a> tabs open:<\/p>\n To a neat list of links in a single page – taking up far less memory – at the click of an icon:<\/p>\n I also use this to quickly create a list of links for an email. Open the tabs you want to share in your browser, turn them into a list of labelled links with OneTab, then copy and paste the links into the document.<\/p>\n If you want to get to the pages again from the OneTab page, you can either click on the individual link, or use the “Restore All” option to re-open them all together:<\/p>\n For 14 weeks of Semester I have eight Blackboard Discussion Boards to check daily. Every semester they are different sites, so have a different URL.<\/p>\n So, each semester, I slurp them all up into OneTab , rename them to something sensible and then use the\u00a0 “lock” function to keep them there so they will always be around.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I check the news headlines and the weather on my iPad every morning. I use Chrome as my browser on iOs, but discovered (with snail<\/a> and Peter<\/a> helping me by double-checking) that there is no way to instantly close all the open tabs. You can on Android. Not on the iPad or iPhone. No really good explanation why.<\/p>\n As an alternative, I use the feature in Safari that allows me to add webpages to the startup screen, then group them into a folder.<\/p>\nTab Tip 3: Close all those tabs – and have them ready to open again with one click – One Tab<\/span><\/h4>\n
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