If you use a tabbed browser and have ever wished for a way to quickly bookmark multiple tabs for browsing later, such as when you have a number of web pages on a relevant topic open in your browser for a research project, you’re in luck.  Both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 allow you to bookmark multiple tabs at once, save them into a folder of your liking, and later conveniently open them all at once. 

In Internet Explorer 7, you can bookmark a group of tabs by clicking on the “Add to Favorites” button (the gold star with the green plus sign at the top left of the browser window) and then selecting “Add Tab Group to Favorites,” then select a folder to add the bookmarks to or create a new folder.  To open the group of tabs all at once, click on the “Favorites” button (the gold star), move your mouse over the folder with the bookmarks you want to open, and click on the blue arrow that appears.

In Firefox 2 you can bookmark a group of tabs by selecting “Bookmark All Tabs” in the Bookmarks menu, then select an existing folder or create a new folder to put the tabs in.  To open the group of tabs all at once select the folder under the Bookmarks tab, and select the “Open All In Tabs” option that appears at the bottom of the list of all of the bookmarks in the folder.

There is a hitch in Firefox 2--under the default settings, when you choose to open a group of tabs all at once, any tabs you had already open will be closed.  To change this, enter the text “about:config” (without the quotation marks) in your browser’s location bar, find the entry “browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace,” and change the “true” setting in the “value” column to “false” by double clicking on it.  This problem is apparently remedied in Firefox 3, which is currently available only in beta version.

For more information on tabbed browsing, see the LTRC's article “Fire(fox) Up Your Browser!”