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A happy accident
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:28 am
by Icarus
I was trying to switch tabs in Firefox earlier tonight, and accidently middle clicked instead of left. The tab... It was gone! I tried again. Ctrl+T, middle click, no new tab.
Handy feature. I was getting tired of having to switch to the tab before closing it.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:06 am
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Oooh, nice! I tried it out, works well. Thanks Icarus!
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:12 am
by Nate
I never had to switch tabs to close them...I just right clicked on the tab and clicked "Close Tab." o.O
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:22 am
by Warrior 4 Jesus
Nate, don't showoff! (lol)
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:34 pm
by joeblade
lol me too
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:03 pm
by Myoti
Um, yeah, I did what Nate said, too.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:39 pm
by Neko Niisan
Sorry to kill your buzz but I found that out the second day I had Firefox but err... yeh...
Have a cookie! =D
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:49 pm
by Icarus
Cookie!
That just shows how often I read Firefox's documentation.
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:06 am
by Neko Niisan
Icarus wrote:Cookie!
That just shows how often I read Firefox's documentation.
Nah. I discovered it on accident too (I feel asleep and lent on the middle button just as the mouse was over a tab...)
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:30 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
I use tabmix plus, or something similar to it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:25 pm
by ChristianKitsune
my firefox is black and red...*huggles her red and black firefox* that is a cool feature though! I do it nate's way
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:49 pm
by Chii
O.O whatever it's better than having to file> new tab
Thanks so much!
PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:14 am
by TurkishMonky
yep, tabmix plus....has been on my laptop since prettymuch i got it... mouseover gives x button, all new sites and popups in new tabs, and automatic tab restore tools, when you close the wrong one... i didn't even realize that people had so much trouble with tabs.
lol
just messin. that's a cool feature.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:06 am
by Warrior4Christ
Uhh... Opera has that by default...
...plus more.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:35 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
yeah but opera has a funky interface
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:54 pm
by Mithrandir
How about we don't get sidetracked into a browser war, OK?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:06 pm
by Kaligraphic
Hmm, I knew about this in Opera, but I hadn't realized that FF had borrowed it yet. Is this default functionality, or extension-dependent? I have a vanilla FF install on this machine, and it doesn't seem to have this behavior.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:25 pm
by Icarus
Unless extensions modify the help text, it's built in.
However, I noticed it doesn't seem to work on Slackware.
PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:41 am
by blkmage
That's because in Linux, the middle button pastes whatever's on the clipboard or whatever's selected, so by middle clicking on a tab, you're actually pasting something into the tab and telling the browser to go there. I think I fixed it by installing an extension.