favorite sites should be a pleasurable experience. So why do people always look like they're having an ulcer when they have to venture into their Bookmarks menu? Perhaps it's because most people seem to have more bookmarks than there are pages on the Web. Firefox saves you time - and repetitive trips to the Bookmarks menu - by allowing you to open all bookmarks in a bookmarks folder at once, each in its own tab. Follow these steps (and don't have an ulcer): 1. Open the Bookmarks menu. 2. Choose the folder that contains the bookmarks you want to open. The contents of the folder appear in a new menu. 3. Choose the Open in Tabs item at the bottom of the menu, as shown in Figure 7-4. Figure 7-4: You can open all the bookmarks in a folder at once by choosing the Open in Tabs menu item at the bottom. Each bookmark in the folder opens instantly in its own tab. As usual, each tab displays a spinning circle until its page finishes loading. Warning Your bookmarks load in place of your open Web sites, and Firefox doesn't ask for any sort of confirmation. So if you have 12 tabs open and you open a group of 12 or more bookmarks, all your original 12 tabs are replaced with new pages. You can go to each individual tab and click Back to return to the previous page, but that's a big pain. Instead, make sure you're ready to leave your current pages before you open a group of bookmarks. Tip If your mouse has a middle button or clickable scroll wheel, you can middle-click a bookmark folder to achieve the same result. This feature is incredibly useful if you find yourself needing to switch quickly between different tasks on the Internet. For example, say you're playing a bunch of games online, and your boss comes in. (This is hypothetical.) You can quickly open your Bookmarks menu and choose to open all your Work Web sites (that is, all the sites you have grouped in your hypothetical Work folder). Bookmarking open tabs Taking the preceding section's games pages versus work pages example one step further, what happens if you actually want to save your games pages for later? If you just choose the Work folder, your games pages are lost. To take care of this ultra-important case, Firefox allows you to bookmark all open tabs at once into a bookmarks folder. 1. Load each Web site you want to bookmark into a tab. 2. The Bookmark All Tabs window appears so you can enter information about the new bookmarks folder that will contain the open tabs. 3. Enter the name you want to use for the new folder. 4. (Optional) From the Create In drop-down list, you can select a folder within which the new folder will be created. The Create In drop-down list displays your most recently used bookmarks folders. If you don't see the folder you're looking for, click the button with the down arrow next to it to see a list of all your folders, and then select the desired folder from the list. By default, the new folder is displayed directly in the bookmarks list itself. 5. Click OK to create the new folder. Put that on my tab! Tabbed browsing is a favorite new feature among the Firefox developers, so perhaps it's no surprise that support for the feature is woven throughout Firefox. For example, if your mouse has a middle button or a clickable scroll wheel, you can middle-click virtually anything that loads a Web site to instead load it in a new tab: the Back, Forward, and Home buttons as well as bookmarks and history items. You can also right-click bookmarks and history items, and then choose the Open in New Tab option from the menu that appears.