Tip Details Add a Related Tip

Rate as: Positive Negative

Quickly closing browser tabs

All of the major tabbed browser (Firefox, IE7, and Safari) have a nice feature that allows you to quickly close excess browser tabs. If you have a lot of extra browser tabs open that you want to close, go to the tab bar and right-click on it. This will pop up a menu with an option to "Close Other Tabs", clicking it will close all of the other tabs open in your browser leaving you with just the tab that you are currently looking at. So far as I cn tell, Firefox and Safari have no keyboard shortcut for this command (which is unfortunate), but in IE7 you can press Control + Alt + F4 to execute this command from the keyboard.
Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: browsers shortcut
Added: on Aug 24, 2007 at 8:48 am
Added By: foxnut
Searches: browser tab shortcut close quickly

Comments on this Tip

Add a Comment
Yeah, when I first heard of this command I thought it was something I'd never need. But once you know it's there, it is very useful. I just wish Firefox would add a shortcut for this.
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 24, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Your Comment:
(how to format)
Rate This Tip:

Verify Humanity:
Sorry, we know it's annoying, but please enter the characters shown in the image to the left so that we know you're an actual person and not an evil spammer. Thanks.
       

Related Tips

Quickly open links in a new tab in Firefox

100% positive, 1 comment - last added on Jul 07, 2007 at 12:11 am
– Tip added by foxnut on Jul 04, 2007 at 8:53 am

Opening new tabs in Safari 3.1

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 18, 2008 at 7:52 am

Quick page scrolling in browsers

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 08, 2008 at 7:28 am

Quick searches in Firefox

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by foxnut on Apr 01, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Duplicate a tab in Firefox

33% positive, 2 comments - last added on May 16, 2008 at 12:56 pm
– Tip added by foxnut on Mar 19, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Quick search in Firefox

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Aug 09, 2007 at 7:59 am

complete URLs in the address bar in Firefox and IE7

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by geekalot on Apr 08, 2007 at 11:40 am

Enabling extensions in Google Chrome

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Sep 22, 2009 at 7:50 am

Reopen closed tabs in Google Chrome

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Sep 05, 2008 at 7:40 am

Opening URLs in a new tab

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 28, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Quicker searching in pages on Firefox

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 11, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Zooming text only in Firefox

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by foxnut on Apr 01, 2008 at 9:40 am

Setting the homepage in Firefox

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 19, 2008 at 9:30 am

Firefox page navigation

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Feb 21, 2008 at 10:50 am

Droid: Open links in a new window

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 11, 2009 at 7:44 am

Changing Kindle 2 line spacing

Categories: Kindle Kindle 2 shortcut
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 07, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Droid: Creating bookmarks

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user 5 days, 8 hours ago

Turn on visual tab previews in Firefox 3.6

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Nov 05, 2009 at 7:10 am

Shortcut to System Preferences

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Oct 29, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Shortcut for secure trash emptying in Snow Leopard

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Oct 29, 2009 at 11:26 am