You can be in two (or three or four) places at once, at least where browsing Web pages is concerned. While you wait for one Web page to load on your computer, you can examine another one.

To open more than one Web page in Internet Explorer, press Ctrl+N or choose File, New,Window. Doing so opens a second Internet Explorer window, where you can go to another Web page. You can also open a second window by Shift+clicking a hyperlink. To go back and forth between Web pages that are open, click buttons on the taskbar.

Mozilla is more sophisticated than Internet Explorer when it comes to browsing more than one Web page. In Mozilla, you can open the second (or third or fourth) page in a tab. Use one of these techniques to open the first tab or another tab:

• Press Ctrl+T or choose File, New, Navigator Tab.
• Click the Open a New Tab button.
• Right-click a tab and choose New Tab.

Click tabs to go from Web page to Web page. Use these techniques to close tabs:

• Click the Close button on the right side of the tab bar to close all tabs.
• Right-click and choose Close Tab to close a tab (or press Ctrl+W).
• Right-click and choose Close Other Tabs to close all tabs but the one you're viewing.