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Prevent unintentional scrolling while dragging in Safari
Authored by: RussellK on Aug 25, '06 09:03:29AM

I agree with pub3abn on this one. Right-clicking and selecting the drop-down menu item for "open in new tab" or, even better, scroll-ball-clicking once this preference is set to open a link in a new tab, seems much cleaner than dragging up to the tab bar. And besides, you have to have the tab bar opened already in order to drag onto it.

My gripe with windows scrolling as you drag across the upper and lower "thresholds" is that the area which activates the scrolling action often seems way too small...I often can't get my mouse pointer to stop over it, and once I do start scrolling this way I often "fall off" the activation area and the scrolling stops. Any way to increase this activation area would be a welcome hint indeed.



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Prevent unintentional scrolling while dragging in Safari
Authored by: wm on Aug 25, '06 09:03:45PM
Drag-and-drop into the tab bar isn't something I use all the time, but there are some cases where it really does come in handy, and the lack of a delay has been pretty annoying for me.

Here's an example. Sometimes on forums people will post a link without bothering to make it a link, like this:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1031.html

(I had to post in HTML mode to get this too-clever forum software not to auto-link it :-) )

Frequently I want to check out their link, but not immediately--I want to open it in a new tab but not switch to that tab. If you limit yourself to what you can do with cmd-click or ctrl-click, you have to do something like this:

1) Select the URL and hit cmd-C to copy it
2) Create a new tab
3) Paste the URL in and hit Return
4) Switch back to your previous tab

With the power of drag and drop, all you have to do is:

1) Select the URL and then hold the mouse button down long enough that Safari knows you want to drag it
2) Hold down the Shift key and drag it onto the space to the right of the rightmost tab, or, if you have a lot of tabs, onto the ">>" symbol

Now the URL has been opened in a new tab but you haven't been taken away from the page you were reading. It's pretty handy!

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Prevent unintentional scrolling while dragging in Safari
Authored by: beepotato on Aug 27, '06 06:36:54AM

Try something like this:
1) Select the URL
2) cmd-C to copy, cmd-L to get to the address bar, then cmd-V to paste
3) cmd-return to open the pasted URL in a new tab in the background

Of course you should make sure your preferences are not set to automatically select new tabs, but that's true for the drag-and-drop method too.



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Prevent unintentional scrolling while dragging in Safari
Authored by: blgrace on Aug 27, '06 05:08:46PM

I just triple click then right click then choose go to address for this.



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Prevent unintentional scrolling while dragging in Safari
Authored by: bkemper on Aug 26, '06 09:52:08AM

When you have a URL without an anchor tag (i.e. it is not an actual link), you can also select it and choose "Open URL" from the Services menu. As long as you have "Open links from applications in a new tab" set in the first panel of Sarari's preferences, this will result in a new tab with that url's page in it (otherwise it will be a new window).

Even better, get ICeCoffEE. This allows you to command click on any URL in most Cocoa applications (including Safari) for the same effect. It uses its own logic to figure out where the url starts and stops, but you can select the link first if you want to give it a hand (useful sometimes when there is no "http://" part, or some unescaped characters in the search string).

ICeCoffEE also lets you add the Services menu to the main menu bar (instead of hiding it in the application menu) or to the right-click contextual menu of all your applications, or both. It has a control panel to turn any of these features on or off.

I love ICeCoffEE and think Apple should build it into the system, but some people might not like that it is an Application Enhancer module. I've never had any problems with that, but i expect there will be some comments negative comments about it now from the anti-APE crowd.

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