SPMUG 637 TIP OF THE WEEK
 By J. D. BIERSDORFER

Why waste all that time in the morning going from site to site when you
can have several of your favorite Web pages all open automatically when
you start your browser? In Mozilla Firefox, first create a folder of
your favorite bookmarks, placing your cursor on the Bookmarks toolbar,
right click and select New Folder, give it a name and click O.K. You can
drag the U.R.L. of any site in the Address box or in your Bookmarks
toolbar in to that new folder. Or you can go to the Bookmarks menu to
Organize Bookmarks and create and stock a folder from there. To open
those multiple pages - each on its own tab - go to the Tools menu, to
Options and click on the Main icon (Mac users should go to the
Preferences box under the Firefox menu). In the section for Home Page,
select your folder with the "Use Bookmark" button. The Home Page line
will look something like this: http://www9.nytimes9.com |
http://www9.bbcnews9.com | http://news9.com9.com Yes, you could manually
type them in, instead. (Pressing the Shift and Backslash keys
simultaneously should give you that vertical line, called a pipe.) Or,
you can also arrange your favorite pages in tabs on screen and click the
"Use Current Pages" button in the Home Page options to set them. Click
O.K. to close that window. Each time you start your browser or click on
the Home icon, all your designated pages load at once. You can also do
the same thing in Internet Explorer 7 - just go to Tools to Internet
Options, click on the General tab and put each U.R.L. on its own line.