See the link, you may also google "Tabs in firefox"

Here is a link that might be useful: Using tabs in firefox

Mozilla says "..quickly jump between multiple pages that you are reviewing or monitoring. ..." Since I usually only read newspapers and slow forums and never need to quickly jump between multiple pages I guess my intuition was correct and I have virtually no need for tabs.

As an example, on this forum I right click all the blue links and open in a new tab, then read the posts. It saves me having to go back to the main page to click on a new link each time.

I was going to say the same thing. I love using tabs, they save a lot of time going back and forth. If you are reading the paper, you can leave each page as a tab and move back and forth without opening and closing windows. Also, as meggypeggy says, just right-click on a link and it opens in a new tab.

Jane

I could not go back to NOT using tabs can not even imagine it.
Once you start and get used to how much time it saves you and how easy it is to do you will quickly start to love them. Plus it is easier on your pc to have only mulitple tabs open rather than having multiple instances of complete windows open.

This is one thing I love about tabs. I can set up a folder up on the bookmarks toolbar in that folder I put the links to every site I visit every day, like this forum, the other forums I am on, my netvibes page which contains all my rss news feeds, my email sites. Then in the morning I go to that folder easily accessible on the top of the firefox bar right click on it and select open all in tabs. Bam immediately I have my full list of tabs open in one movement now that is a huge time saver, They are there open and ready for me to visit one after the other.

I have another folder up there called tools in that one I have the links to all the security programs I have to recommend or list many times a day when helping people with pc issues, I do not have to go looking in favorites or google or where ever for them I have them all right there in that folder on my bookmarks toolbar, I left click the folder go to the one I need right click it to open in new tab and I am there. Huge asset.

Wow, Raven, those are great uses for Tabs. I'm only a month into Firefox and have used Tabs (to keep several sites open at once), but never thought about the benefit of folders. That would save time. Right now, when I'm trying to send someone the link for superantispyware (thanks - I got that here), I search the forum for the link and then send it. Or sometimes I'll send it in an email, and go back through "sent" emails to find the link. Tabs in folders is so much nicer.

Also, I got the firefox addon "firefox showcase" which I'm just getting the hang of, but it seems great. You click a button (somewhere in the top left corner - sorry I forget which one but it might be the small down pointed triangle in the beige/yellow box to the left of the tabs themselves) - and the, voila, it shows mini-windows of all the tabs. That is so useful when I'm say shopping for the same product on many sites and can't remember from the tab names which is which - and I want to revisit a specific one. Very handy.

Lynn.