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Tabs, Accelerators, and InPrivate Browsing: recommended links

The information in this Help topic applies to Windows Internet Explorer 8.

When you open a new tab in your browser, you have a number of options. You can:

  • Type or paste an address into the Address bar to navigate to a new webpage.

  • Use any number of Accelerators, which enable you to select text and use it to do such things as opening a street address in a mapping website or looking up the dictionary definition of a word.

  • Turn on InPrivate Browsing, which enables you to surf the web without leaving a trace by automatically clearing your website history when you close the browser window.

  • Reopen tabs you have previously closed, either in your current browser session or in a previous one.

Here are some links to more detailed information on these options:

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