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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino Web Browsers
I've just discovered (accidentally, while trying to close a tab and clicking more than once) that a double-click to the right of the last open tab (where there are no more tabs) results on the creation of a new one in Firefox, Camino, and Flock.

It works even when you double-click on the small space that is left when the tab bar is crowded. Quite useful!

[robg adds: We noted this behavior in the first preview release of Firefox, way back in 2004, but I felt it worth a repeat, given the other browsers it also works in, and Firefox's 200+ million downloads since that time!]
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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: tobor68 on Sep 20, '06 07:49:00AM

great little feature that. wish it was in safari.

i know this may be off subject, but i'm new to this site and maybe someone can redirect me.

one thing about the gecko rendering engine that stops me from using it as my default. it seems there's a z index rendering issue (mac only).

scroll bars for text are in front of everything, including popup menus.

anyone else found this or am i crazy?

cheers,
sean



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: kainewynd2 on Sep 20, '06 08:04:55AM
Welcome to Mac OSX Hints. I can't say that I've noticed the problem myself, but if you post in the forums (http://forums.macosxhints.com/) someone might be able to share more insight.



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: Old Toad on Sep 20, '06 10:02:02AM

Control-click in Safari to the right of the last tab will do the same.



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Re: A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: Uncle Asad on Sep 20, '06 06:04:29PM
A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: lunarhowl on Sep 20, '06 11:44:26AM

Double-clicking to the right of the end tab works for me in Safari. I should qualify, though, that I have Saft running and don't know whether this is specifically a Saft or Safari feature.



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: wordsofwisedumb on Sep 20, '06 01:19:28PM

It is a feature added by Saft. I have to use school Macs here that do not have Saft installed and I miss that ability every time I use them.



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A quick New Tab shortcut in SAFARI
Authored by: malukie on Sep 21, '06 10:24:02AM

For it to work in Safari: control-click to the right of the last tab.



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: morespace54 on Sep 20, '06 12:36:07PM

It works in Netscape too (remeber this one?)...



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: Bodoggy on Sep 20, '06 09:12:54PM

Nice hint.

Since opening a new tab results in you needing your hands above the keys to type a URL anyway, I tend to find Command-T to be faster. I guess I am more of a keyboard kind of guy anyway. I find using the mouse to perform commands to be pretty slow.



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A quick New Tab shortcut in Firefox, Flock and Camino
Authored by: ottonomy on Sep 20, '06 09:42:31PM

I often open a new tab to go to a bookmarked site without disturbing a page I have navigated to via links (one hand on mouse, other holding cold beer). This hint saves me the trouble of finding a coaster (CD-R). I would agree that Command-T makes a lot more sense if one's next move would be to the address bar for a URL. Another Safari/Saft user here. Never noticed this in the Saft documentation. I wonder what else I've been missing.



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