Internet Explorer 7 tabbed browsing

Convenient thumbnail images.

Internet Explorer 7 helps you manage multiple tabs with a trio of convenient features: Quick Tabs, tabbed browsing, and Tab Groups.

Quick Tabs

Quick Tabs enables you to view thumbnail images of all open tabs in one view. Tabbed browsing is the most requested browser navigation feature among customers who want to manage multiple websites within one browsing window.

By clicking the Quick Tab icon just to the right of the Favorites icon, you can view all open tabs. From the Quick Tabs View, you can open any tab by clicking anywhere on the tab image, and you can close any tab by clicking the X in the far right corner of the image. The Quick Tabs page scales to the number of tabs that you have open. If you have nine tabs open, for example, Quick Tabs shows thumbnail images of all nine tabs; if you have more than 20 tabs open, you see smaller thumbnail images of each tab, but you can still see all tabs in a single view.

Tabbed browsing

Tabbed browsing is the most requested browser navigation feature among customers who want to manage multiple websites within one browsing window.

Tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7.

To create or open tabs in Internet Explorer 7, you click the empty tab on the Toolbar or right-click any hyperlink in a webpage and choose New Tab. You can also right-click a tab to refresh each page as an individual tab, refresh all of them as a group, close individual tabs or the entire group, and reorder tabs on the tab bar by dragging.

Tab Groups

Internet Explorer simplifies the organization of multiple tabs with Tab Groups. You can organize multiple tabs as a single Tab Group, which you can then save as a Favorite.

Create Tab Groups for a variety of subjects.

You can create Tab Groups for a mix of subjects or categories, such as shopping, finance, or news. For example, you can save travel sites such as Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia as a travel Tab Group in Favorites. The Tab Group appears as a folder on the Favorites menu. You can click on the folder to expand the Tab Group to show the sites within that folder. You can open all the sites in a Tab Group with a single click on the arrow to the right of the folder. A Tab Group can contain an unlimited number of tabs or sites, and you can create an unlimited number of Tab Groups within Favorites.