Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Browser Tips: FirefoxTabs and Shortcuts

Firefox is a browser with great functionality for Web research. One way to take advantage of this functionality is to use keyboard shortcuts. My favorite is the Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut. This opens a new tab. Why use this? Say you are searching in a database, but want to look up a journal title in the A to Z list to see what our holdings (electronic or print) are for that title. Use Ctrl+T for PCs or Cmd+T for Macs to open another tab, click over to the tab and go back to the Access Databases Page. You haven't lost your database search and now you can check holdings for journals whenever you need it during the search session.
More browser tips coming soon.