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Internal Tabbed Browser

When you open a bookmark with a double click or the next changed bookmark with F12, WebSite-Watcher will always use the first (left) tab. Links from that page can be opened in a new tab by pressing the Shift key while clicking a link.


Pages will be opened in a new Browser-Tab when:

  • Holding the Shift key while clicking a hyperlink
  • Via the context menu when right-clicking a hyperlink
  • Holding the Shift key while clicking one of the following buttons in the browser toolbar:
  • Opening a new, empty Browser-Tab manually with the shortcut Ctrl+T



Open new Browser-Tabs in foreground/background

New browser tabs can optionally be opened in foreground or in background. That means, that if a new browser tab is opened in foreground it will be activated automatically. If you open new browser tabs in background, the active browser tab stays in foreground. The foreground/background setting can be changed as follows:

  Method #1
  1. Open menu "Options"
  2. Select "Program configuration"
  3. Select the "Internal Browser" tab
  4. Enable the option "[x] Open new tabs in background"

  Method #2
  1. Click the "WebSite-Watcher-Eye" toolbar button of the internal browser
  2. Select "Browser Tabs"
  3. Select "Open new tabs in background"

  Method #3
  1. If more tabs are opened then right click a tab and select "Open new tabs in background"

TIP - Individual handling with the Ctrl+Shift key:
If the Ctrl+Shift keys are pressed, then the new tab will be opened in foreground if the option "Open new tabs in background" is enabled and vice versa.


Opened tabs can be closed with:

  • Right clicking a browser tab
  • Using the shortcut Ctrl+W
  • All opened Browser-Tabs can be closed with Ctrl+Shift+W


The button opens the page of the active Browser-Tab in the system's default browser, for example Internet Explorer.

If you hold the Shift+Alt key while clicking one of the buttons , the page will also be opened in the default browser.


Icons in Browser-Tabs:

Page is loading.
Page fully loaded.
Page fully loaded, Tab has been selected.