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Postby Icarus » Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:28 am

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.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:06 am

Oooh, nice! I tried it out, works well. Thanks Icarus!
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Postby Nate » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:12 am

I never had to switch tabs to close them...I just right clicked on the tab and clicked "Close Tab." o.O
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:22 am

Nate, don't showoff! (lol)
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Postby joeblade » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:34 pm

lol me too
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Postby Myoti » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:03 pm

Um, yeah, I did what Nate said, too.
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Postby Neko Niisan » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:39 pm

Sorry to kill your buzz but I found that out the second day I had Firefox but err... yeh...

Have a cookie! =D
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Postby Icarus » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:49 pm

Cookie!

That just shows how often I read Firefox's documentation.
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Postby Neko Niisan » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:06 am

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...)
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:30 am

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I use tabmix plus, or something similar to it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:25 pm

my firefox is black and red...*huggles her red and black firefox* that is a cool feature though! I do it nate's way
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Postby Chii » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:49 pm

O.O whatever it's better than having to file> new tab

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Postby TurkishMonky » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:14 am

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. :P

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just messin. that's a cool feature.
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:06 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:Image
I use tabmix plus, or something similar to it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/

Uhh... Opera has that by default...

...plus more.

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:35 pm

yeah but opera has a funky interface
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Postby Mithrandir » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:54 pm

How about we don't get sidetracked into a browser war, OK?
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Postby Kaligraphic » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:06 pm

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.
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Postby Icarus » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:25 pm

Unless extensions modify the help text, it's built in.

However, I noticed it doesn't seem to work on Slackware.
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Postby blkmage » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:41 am

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.
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