Wikipedia:Snap Links tutorial: Difference between revisions

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Well, after you have the desired web-pages displayed in tabs, you can take full advantage of your browswer's tabbing features, which let you inspect or batch edit lots of pages '''''fast'''''.

In Firefox and Chrome, the [[keyboard shortcut]] {{key press|[[Control key|Ctrl]]|Tab}} is used to switch between tabs. Use {{key press|Ctrl|W}} to close the current tab as you make the switch to the next tab.

=== Tab controls in Firefox taband controlsChrome ===

These controls are built-in to ''Firefox'' and Chrome:

* '''''Rapid page viewing:'''''

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*** To skim through lots of random articles, middle-click on "Random article" multiple times

** Read or work on one

** When done, press Ctrl-F4 or{{key press|Ctrl-|w}} to close the current tab and instantly go to the next one

** Great for skimming sets of articles, where you are checking for a missing element, or looking for a particular kind of page or element. Just keep pressing Ctrl-F4 to instantly get rid of the current tab and go onto the next one, cycling through them fast until you find one you are looking for. Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam!

* Middle-click on link - create new tab with linked page as its contents

* {{key press|Ctrl-T}} - Create new (employ) tab

* {{key press|Ctrl-Tab}} - Switch to next tab

* {{key press|Shift-Ctrl-Tab}} - Switch to previous tab

* {{key press|Ctrl-Shift-T}} - un-close a tab (this will even remember contents entered in text boxes like Wikipedia's text editor)

* Ctrl-(drag tab) - Clone a tab

* Ctrl-Shift-T - un-close a tab (this will even remember contents entered in text boxes like Wikipedia's text editor)

** Or go to the History menu and choose Recently Closed Tabs

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"Tabbing" is task-switching technology. You are basically working in windows, directly on Wikipedia pages using Wikipedia's interface. So if you need to inspect pages (that is, actually look at them), you simply open their links with ''Snap Links'' and each page is in display mode by default. In firefox, you switch between pages (in subwindows called "tabs") with {{key press|Ctrl|Tab}} or with {{key press|Ctrl|w}} (which closes the current window as you make the switch). Once in tabs, you can switch back and forth between pages very rapidly.

In AWB, once you've processed a page, you can't go back to it. But in Firefox you can, even if you've already closed the tab! (Restore a tab with {{key press|Shift|Ctrl|Shift|t}}).

==Notes==