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Tip 2: Use right click to open links
When you click a link in a web page, you don't know what will happen. It could be one of three things:
- Perhaps the current page you're viewing will be replaced. But you might have wanted to finish reading the page, and you'll have to keep using the back button to try and find it again.
- Maybe a new window will open. But perhaps you don't want lots of windows open on your screen.
- In modern browsers, maybe the page will open in a new tab.
You can decide what happens by right clicking any link and selecting from the options. In IE7 it looks like this:
I find this most useful when I do a Google search. There are usually two or three results I want to look at, so I right click each link and open them in a new tab. That way, I don't lose the original search results.
On this website, I've let you be in control. Every link opens in the same window. To help you decide, I've indicated links that take you away from my site with this logo