I’m a Firefox user since it came out and honestly, Internet Explorer has just served as a backup browser for those sites that don’t function with Friefox. Anyway, IE 7 is a real looker compared to IE 6, especially when it finally came out with its tabbed browsing feature.

Here are keyboard shortcuts for tabs to make browsing with IE a lot quicker:

1. Ctrl + left-click
   Opens links in a new tab in the background
2. Ctrl + Shift + left-click
   Opens links in a new tab in the foreground
3. Ctrl + T
   Opens a new tab in the foreground
4. Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + Shift + Tab
   Switches between tabs
5. Ctrl + W
   Closes current tab or the current window if there are no other tabs
6. Alt + Enter
   Opens a new tab in the foreground from the Address bar
7. Ctrl + x (where x is a number between 1 and 8 )
   Switches to a specific tab number
8. Ctrl + 9
   Switches to the last tab
9. Ctrl + Alt + F4
   Closes other tabs

You can also tweak the way tabs behave by accessing Tools -> Internet Options -> Under “Tabs,” click the “Settings” button.