As the title states, if you click on a link using middle-mouse click, Firefox will open it in a new tab. This is awesome for Google searches as you can open the first 10 results in tabs, and proceed to the next 10. Once you have 20 open, you can Control + W, and start reading your results to your search.
Also works good for Blog Aggregators, like Fullasagoog.com for instance. You can pick entries you wish to read, and then when your done picking, go through each tab.
Quicker than Right Click + Open in New Tab.
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Nice, I still prefer control-click though.
caseyc
March 17th, 2005
you can use Ctrl + Left Click
claudius
March 17th, 2005
Middle-click on the actual tab, closes it.
Justin
March 17th, 2005
What have you been doing so far? I’ve been using the middle mouse to open tabs for ages!
Oh, are you a former Mac user?
Manish Jethani
March 17th, 2005
Hehe, nope, former IE user.
JesterXL
March 17th, 2005
You should take a look at the Super Drag And Go extension. Opens links in a new tab with a click-drag-release.
Once you try it, you won’t believe you did it any other way.
Charlie
March 17th, 2005
There is also a mouse gesture extension for firefox so you can get all the myIE (maxthon) type gestures happening too. Once you get used to it, you’ll never want to navigate another way.
I get really annoyed when I go to someone else’s computer with IE and can’t use the middle mouse button to open new windows…..
Aran Rhee
March 17th, 2005
A friend of mine develops a forum that has a flash-based interface and he can’t figure out how to get the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab on one of the pages.
Does anyone know how to do this?
dominic
November 15th, 2005
You could try like:
function onEnterFrame()
{
if(Key.isDown(4))
{
trace(’true’);
}
}
And then where the trace is, detect if the middle-mouse click was at the location of the link. Un-efficient as hell, though.
JesterXL
November 15th, 2005
That is awesome it actually works.
George
January 17th, 2007