firefox, tabs and mouse
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:26 pm
i like using tabs. in fact, i almost never open a new window in firefox.
if you look in your preferences (for firefox 2.0), you should see it set up to open new pages in tabs. it should default to not switching to a new tab when you click on a link. here are a couple of other enhancements you can make.
- type about:config in the location bar, and type "tab" in the filter.
- set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true (double-click it)
- type "link" in the filter, and set browser.link.open_newwindow to 3.
- restart firefox
i hope you all know about the control-click binding. if you don't, well, control-clicking on a link will open it in another tab.
why is this useful? well, i have a script in my $HOME/bin that does this:
so, i start firefox, and then run my script, and it opens up all those links in tabs. this is better than setting all the links as my "home page", because i don't always want every new window i open to go to those pages.
the other useful thing: middle-paste. if you have a three button mouse (and you should), you can select a url from some window (a browser window, email, your editor, etc.), move the mouse to a firefox window, and click the middle button anywhere in the frame. it'll load the url.
to enable this, go to "about:config" and type "middle" in the filter. double-click on middlemouse.contentLoadURL to set it to true.
if you look in your preferences (for firefox 2.0), you should see it set up to open new pages in tabs. it should default to not switching to a new tab when you click on a link. here are a couple of other enhancements you can make.
- type about:config in the location bar, and type "tab" in the filter.
- set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true (double-click it)
- type "link" in the filter, and set browser.link.open_newwindow to 3.
- restart firefox
i hope you all know about the control-click binding. if you don't, well, control-clicking on a link will open it in another tab.
why is this useful? well, i have a script in my $HOME/bin that does this:
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#!/bin/sh
firefox http://slashdot.org/
firefox http://mail.google.com/mail
firefox http://reddit.com/
firefox 'http://www.linuxpakistan.net/forum2x/search.php?search_id=newposts'
firefox 'http://sysadminsline.com/search.php?search_id=newposts'
the other useful thing: middle-paste. if you have a three button mouse (and you should), you can select a url from some window (a browser window, email, your editor, etc.), move the mouse to a firefox window, and click the middle button anywhere in the frame. it'll load the url.
to enable this, go to "about:config" and type "middle" in the filter. double-click on middlemouse.contentLoadURL to set it to true.