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Open links in tabs in Firefox via scroll wheel clicks
Authored by: scotty321 on Oct 21, '06 07:28:34AM

Actually, Safari does this functionality one better than FireFox.

In fact, this very feature in Safari is keeping me from moving over to Firefox full-time, because i use this feature in Safari all the time:

In Safari, whenever your cursor is inside any search field on any webpage, including if you're in the built-in Google search tool bar up at the top of the browser or if you're in the URL address bar at the top — and you hold down the COMMAND KEY when you hit RETURN on your keyboard, it always opens up the resulting page in a NEW TAB.

I totally love this— what this means is that I don't have to open up a new tab FIRST when I want another tab as the result of a search — I just do the search in my current webpage and hold down the COMMAND KEY when I press return to trigger a new tab.

Does anyone know how to do this in Firefox?

Thanks,
Scott



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Open links in tabs in Firefox via scroll wheel clicks
Authored by: RobinC on Oct 22, '06 06:41:32AM

It works with command+enter on seamonkey (the replacement for the full mozilla suite) - although it's not in Firefox 1.5 it will hopefully make it into later versions.

If you're ever unsure of extra settings in firefox (the prefs is abysmal, one reason I only have it for checking compatability of websites I code) you can always go to "about:config" and type things into the filter bar - sadly I don't know (from seamonkey) which actual entry is used for it...

Robin



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