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Blocker Settings command on this same menu to

specify sites on which you do want to allow pop-ups.

For details, see Chapter 15, which explains how you

can adjust privacy settings.

Many people feel anonymous when browsing online,

but that isn’t entirely correct. The level of information

any site learns about you when you browse (even if

you don’t log in) may be considerably more than you

realize. See Chapter 2 for more about how sites gather

your personal information and how they use it.

Use Tabs in Browsers

Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, and Safari, offer a feature called tabbed

browsing. In addition to opening multiple home pages on tabs, you can

open new tabs as you browse the Web. (See Figure 4-6.) You can then

click tabs to jump to other sites that you’ve displayed on those tabs

without having to navigate backwards or forwards in a single window

to sites you’ve previously visited.

Figure 4-6

Here’s how to use tabbed browsing for maximum efficiency in Internet

Explorer:

1. Click the New Tabbutton to open a new, blank tab. The
   new tab now appears above the body of the tab area to
   the right of any other open tabs.

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