You may already know this but I thought I would share this for people who hasn’t noticed.
Usually when you don’t want to lose the current page, you right click on a link and select open in a new tab or window. But then you need to open and close many tabs or windows. This opening and closing costs a lot of system resources espcially in Chrome where each tab is a separate process. But Chrome has a better method. Drag and drop links in to a tab or window.
Let’s say you are on a web page. You see a link you want to open. You can drag the link to the top of the window and drop it on to the + sign or any other tab. The link will open in that tab. You can go back the page and drag and drop another link the same tab or a new + sign.
It is also possible to drag a tab out of the browser to create a new window. Likewise you can drag tabs between two different windows.
You can also rearrange the tabs by dragging them to new locations.
Now you know why I decided to ditch internet explorer. Forefox couldn’t do that even with it’s better standards conformance. Of course, Internet Explorer is the most experienced person in the block, so I need to go back there whenever Chrome craps out. Like when I wanted to download the DVD image of Open Suse 11.1. My clicks were vaninshing in to thin air. No error message, nothing. IE started the download but crapped out at 320 MB. I got through using FlashGet and IE. But that is another story.