The Mozilla Sidebar

The Mozilla sidebar is an area where you can keep the items you use often. Each item is accessed using a tab. If the sidebar is not available, click View and select Show/Hide->Sidebar . You can add or remove items from the sidebar.

By default, the sidebar contains default items: Search, Bookmarks, and History. If you click a tab, the features for the item open in the sidebar. For instance, if you click the Search tab, the features of the search function open as shown in the window on the right. You see a field where you enter search terms (PHP is entered). You can select a search engine in the drop-down list (Google is currently selected). Click Search . The search results display in the sidebar. Click a result to open the Web page in the browser window. The sidebar retains the search results for your use.

If you click the Bookmarks tab, all your bookmarks are available in the sidebar (shown in Figure 15-4). You can open a bookmarked page by clicking it. The History tab is similar, listing pages you have previously visited.

You can add items to your sidebarnews, weather, address book, stock quotes, FedEx, many others. Or you can remove items. Click Tabs in the upper corner of the sidebar. Select Customize Sidebar . The window below opens.

The left pane shows available tabs. The right pane shows the current sidebar tabs. To add a tab to the sidebar, click the tab in the left pane and click Add . You can click Preview, before you click Add .

To remove a tab from the sidebar, click the tab in the right pane and click Remove .

Notice the dotted area on the middle right border of the sidebarthe sidebar handle. Click this area and the sidebar will close. Click it again and the sidebar opens.

Tabbed Browsing in Mozilla

Tabbed browsing in Mozilla allows you to keep more than one Web page open in a single browser window. You use its tab to bring a Web page forward.

Tabbed browsing is shown in Figure 15-4. Figure 15-5 shows the tabbed browsing section of Figure 15-4.

Figure 15-5. Mozilla tabs.

The Fedora project page is open in Figure 5-4. Figure 15-5 shows the top of the Fedora Web page. Notice the top row of this figure. There are three tabs. The tabs display the title for the Web page, the title that appears in the Web page title bar, as much of the title as space allows.

The first tab is currently the Fedora Project tab. The second tab shows Janet Valade's Home Page. If you click this tab, you see the home page. The third tab shows RealPlayer 10. If you click this tab, the RealPlayer Web page displays.

To see another Web page, you can replace one of the current tabs in the Web page or open a new tab. When a tab is selected and the Web page in the tab is visible, you can type a URL to open a new Web page in the selected tab. For instance, with the Fedora Web page open, you can type a URL into the location box and the new Web page will replace the Fedora Web page, still in the current tab.

To open a new tab, right-click a blank space on the bar on which the tabs display. Select New Tab . A new tab opens in the current browser window. The new tab will be blank, labeled (Untitled). You can also open a new tab by clicking the New Tab button, shown at the beginning of the tab bar, to the left of the first tab.

If you have only one Web page in the browser window, with no tabs currently open, you can begin tabbed browsing by clicking File and selecting New->New tab . The current Web page remains and is given a tab and a new blank tab opens in the browser window.

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