Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
The WebBook and the Web Forager: an information workspace for the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
The tangled Web we wove: a taskonomy of WWW use
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How knowledge workers use the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pushing back: evaluating a new behaviour for the back and forward buttons in web browsers
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Smartback: supporting users in back navigation
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
The advantages of a cross-session web workspace
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
The impact of task on the usage of web browser navigation mechanisms
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Not quite the average: An empirical study of Web use
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
Measuring web page revisitation in tabbed browsing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A scalable and tiling multi-monitor aware window manager
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MouseHints: easing task switching in parallel browsing
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CONTEXT'11 Proceedings of the 7th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
No search result left behind: branching behavior with browser tabs
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Supporting Multiple Virtual World on a Single 3D Viewer
DS-RT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM 16th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
Optimising visual and textual in search user interfaces
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
Facilitating parallel web browsing through multiple-page view
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Swipe vs. scroll: web page switching on mobile browsers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Online multitasking and user engagement
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
LiveAction: Automating Web Task Model Generation
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
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We present a study which investigated how and why users of Mozilla Firefox use multiple tabs and windows during web browsing. The detailed web browsing usage of 21 participants was logged over a period of 13 to 21 days each, and was supplemented by qualitative data from diary entries and interviews. Through an examination of several measures of their tab usage, we show that our participants had a strong preference for the use of tabs rather than multiple windows. We report the reasons they cited for using tabs, and the advantages over multiple windows. We identify several common tab usage patterns which browsers could explicitly support. Finally, we look at how tab usage affects web page revisitation. Most of our participants switched tabs more often than they used the back button, making tab switching the second most important navigation mechanism in the browser, after link clicking.