Last night, a friend pointed out a very nice feature in Mozilla (version 1.0 and perhaps earlier). If you use Mozilla, you more than likely use its tabbed windows feature (discussed in this hint). But did you know that you can save a set of tabbed windows as a group of sites?
For example, if you usually load Mozilla and then open new tabs to macosxhints, the macosxhints forum site, Macintouch, MacFixIt, CNN, and Apple, you can make that process a one-click operation. Launch Mozilla, open new tabs to the sites you would like to have in the set, and then select Bookmarks -> File Bookmark. It does not matter which tab you are on when you select this menu option.
This opens a dialog box that allows you to name and store a bookmark in a given location. But there's also a checkbox option called "File as Group". When you check the box, the "Location" field (for storing the URL) is disabled and the name of the bookmark is blanked out. Type a name for the set ("Normal", etc.) and hit OK and you have just saved your current tab configuration! If you save it to the Personal Toolbar folder, then you can open your standard set of tabs with one click when you launch Mozilla.
I've created sets for working on macosxhints, for checking other Mac web sites, and for checking the various news sites. Each has a spot in my personal toolbar, making it easy to completely switch from one set of sites to another. Alternatively, I'll use "Open New Window" to create separate pages, each containing a different tab set. This allows me to keep the number of tabs within any window under control, and yet maintain easy access to the large number of sites I browse each day.
The more I dig into Mozilla, the more and more I'm impressed with the depth of its feature set!
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http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020607083215918