2 in the preferences, an option 'refresh icons every x hours' to keep the icons current.

Please see in Properties
This setting is for individual cells.

1 right click an item, then you can choose 'open column in tabs' and 'open row in tabs'. Also, there could be buttons at the sides of the screen so you can access this function with just 1 click.

The nearest I can think of to this is if you right click on a group cell there is the option "open all" which if clicked on opens all the cells in that group in new/background tabs.
Pretty scary !

Many thanks

I checked the "Refresh All" so it should refresh all now.

If you are interested in autorefresh please increase the value from zero (0) to the number of minutes you want.

Will only autorefresh that cell

(Autorefresh is different from refresh all, but maybe refresh all suits you fine)

I suppose folders work, I can always have links in the 'root' and the same in certain folders.

Yes that's true.
You can then open all in one click.

Many thanks

You could add option to Open link in new Tab and keep focus in current Tab.

Do you mean open Cell in background Tab ?

Many thanks