New Tab & New WindowWhen we have a LINK in the Forum, if you click on it it will open up the page
replacing the page you were previously looking at. This can be a pain, particularly if the LINK is to some music as you can no longer read the posts you were reading. Then after you have viewed the LINK page you have to press the '
Back button' top left. And if you don't do that, it is a nightmare trying to find what you had been looking at before as you would have to go through the rigmarole of trying to find your page again.
So what we suggest is
Do a right-click to open the LINK up in a New Tab. We try to remind you by putting this statement above a LINK, but if we don't,
do it anyway.
When you do that right-click, you will see several options to click on (left-click) in that drop-down box. The important ones are the first two .. opening it up in a
new tab, or a
new window. So what do these two actually do?
Opening in a new tabWhen you are looking at something from your browser, there is a TAB at the top showing you what is on that page. By using this option you are adding another 'TAB' to the ones you already have, so this means you can click on any tab and flit from one page to another. In this example below you can see that a
Listen - Community keyboards TAB has appeared ready for you to click on.
Opening in a new windowIf you choose this one it will run your browser program again (so you get
two browsers up) and show your LINK as just a single TAB at the top. So you can't now just flit from one page to the other.
So where has your original viewing page gone? Well, I did say that you have
two 'browsers' running, and you can access either by hovering over the
Browser icon in the
TaskBar at the bottom. Left-click the mouse on the one that you want.
Nothing like as neat as having the two tabs at the top of
one browser.
Note: All the above is a quirk of
phpBB Forums (which ours is). Most other Forums (eg. SMF - Simple Machine Forums) just open the LINK up in a New TAB anyway when you do a left-click on the LINK.