In looking at the Browse Menu I realized that for many of the items in the menu, I have already provided reviews in earlier posts. So today’s post is really just for consistency’s sake and I will refer to several previous posts for areas where you can find more information.
The first thing to notice when you select the Browse Menu is that 
it is used to manipulate the internet browser function of FeedDemon. The very first option refers to the Tabbed Browsing function that is embedded in FeedDemon. You will find a submenu attached to this function which will provide several options. The first is a New Browser Tab which will create a new tab for the reading pane and will populate it with the Blank Page info until you select a feed and/or post from your folder tree or News Items List. The next item in the list is the Next Browser Tab which will move you to the next tab on the right, which activates it, showing the article or newspaper view that is open on that particular tab. If you are on the last tab it will take you back to the very first tab.
The next two items in the submenu pretty much behave as you would expect. The first one is Close Browser Tab and it will close the current browser tab that you have selected. It will not have any other affect except to open the next browser tab in the 
reading pane. The second and last item in the Tabbed Browsing submenu is Close Other Tabs. This one basically closes all of the tabs that you have open, except for the one that you are currently viewing.
After the Tabbed Browsing is the Browser Home. This button as I explained in an earlier post, will show the home page you have selected as default in your default web browser. So if you use Internet Explorer it will be the home page that you see when you open Internet Explorer. The next two buttons are the back and forward buttons that are indicative of most web browsers and will take you back to the previous web page that you were looking at in the Reading Pane, or forward if you have already gone back. The next two items are also very familiar to internet users as they provide a stop function and refresh. The stop as you would expect will end the loading of any webpage that you may have navigated to or web application that may be running in conjunction with the current web page that you are viewing in the reading pane. The refresh item will reload the page that you are viewing.
The next item in the list will adjust the size of the text in the reading pane. There are several options to choose from in the submenu. I tend to prefer Medium, but this is a personal 
preference tool so try each one until you find the one you like. This is followed by the print feature. This will follow your computer’s default print settings and will send to your default printer. You will have the opportunity to make changes though before printing. The last tool in this menu is the Show in External Browser option. If you have a web page (this can be a post or another url that you have navigated to) open in the reading pane, this tool will launch the current active page (the one that you are currently viewing in the reading pane) into your default browser. For instance if Firefox is your default browser, FeedDemon will treat the feed or web page as a link (like in an email) and will open Firefox to the web address of that link.
Next time we will look at the Tools menu.
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