Awesome small things in software

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chaoticdonkey

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• Sep 28, 2005

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I just noticed yesterday that in Firefox, I can click my scroll wheel on my mouse, and it opens the page up in a new tab. Before, I was right-clicking and going to "Open in New Tab".

Wow. I can't believe that I never noticed that.

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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It's called "Tabbing" I believe, and that feature is almost the basis upon which Firefox is built.

 

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Well, I knew that it was possible to have different tabs instead of windows. I just didn't know that there was a shortcut to get them to open without having multiple mouse clicks.

 

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yeah. you can also close tabs by 'middle-clicking' the tab title. very handy

 

Sjaak

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Wow thanks for the tip LOL. yeah those small things really pwn.

 

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Haha thanks for pointing that out I never realized before...

 

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When I found that out I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I almost 100% of the time click on links with my wheel button.

 

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Whoa! You really can close tabs with the middle button!

 

khiloa

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Close? How do you close them with the middle button? Its not doing anything here.

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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Holding down CTRL while clicking a link will also open it in a new tab.

khiloa said:

Close? How do you close them with the middle button? Its not doing anything here.

Click to expand...

You click on the Tab you want to close.

 

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• Sep 28, 2005

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.. it is still not working.

 

zip22

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some others:
double click in tha tab bar to open a new blank tab
middle click on a folder of bookmarks and it will open all the bookmarks in their own tab
you can also set multiple tabs for your homepage. just open the pages you want in their own tab, and choose "use current pages" in the homepage part

not shure why its not working for you khiloa. i just middle click on the tab (in the tab bar) and it closes

 

Sjaak

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• Sep 29, 2005

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Firefox pwn!

 

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zip22 said:

middle click on a folder of bookmarks and it will open all the bookmarks in their own tab

Click to expand...

that one has actually annoyed me when I mis-click and instead of opening one page I get like 10.


Still a neat feature

 

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• Sep 30, 2005

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middle clicking a link rocks! it saved my *** while browsing the forums compared to IE.
*Burns a pci that has IE as default browser*
and the middle clicking on a tab to colse it is cool. il start using it.