Tabs, bookmarks and history
Keep several pages open with tabs, save favourite sites as bookmarks, find pages in your history, and browse privately on shared devices.
Keep several pages open, save your favourites, and find pages you visited before. Tabs let you keep several web pages open at once, like having more than one book open on your desk. Tap the little square with a number in it to see all your tabs, then tap one to switch to it. Tap the plus sign to open a new tab, and the X on a tab to close it. Closing tabs you don't need keeps your browser fast. When you find a page you'll want again, bookmark it. Tap the star, or find Add bookmark in the browser menu. Your bookmarks stay saved, so you can open them any time. Your history is a list of the pages you visited. It's useful when you want to find a page again. If you share a phone, or use a public computer, you can clear your history in the browser. On a shared or public device, you can use a private tab. In Chrome, it's called incognito. It won't save your history or logins on that device. But it doesn't hide what you do from websites or your network, so you still need to be careful.
Quick check
Quick check. You want to find a website easily next week. What should you do? Bookmark it. Then it's saved in your bookmarks, ready whenever you need it. Options: Bookmark it; Close the tab; Clear your history; Turn off Wi-Fi.
Recap
Tabs keep several pages open at once. Bookmarks save the pages you want to come back to. History lists the pages you visited. And private tabs are useful on shared devices.
Key points
- Tabs let you keep several pages open. Tap the square with a number to see and switch tabs.
- Bookmark a page (tap the star) to save it for later.
- History lists the pages you visited. Clear it on shared or public devices.
- Private or incognito tabs don't save history on the device, but they don't make you invisible online.
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