Create a new tab with previous site easily in Firefox & Safari
If you're reading a Web page and want to go back to the last site you visited without leaving the current site you're on, there's a simple trick to allow you to do so.
Hold down the Command (Apple) key and click the Back button in Firefox or Safari. The site you're currently visiting remains open and the previous site you visited will open in a new tab.
Tip courtesy of The Graphic Mac.
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same is true moving forward.
same is true moving forward. Holding Command and clicking a link will open link in a new tab as well. Very useful for traversing many links on blogs quickly.
Very useful
That's very useful, thanks!
Hit Command + 1, 2, 3, 4,
Hit Command + 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. to open various open tabs in either browser.
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PC users hold 'ctrl' and
PC users hold 'ctrl' and click back, duh
I would hope everyone here
I would hope everyone here would already know they can do that??? I'm really shocked that this is a tutorial??
Since apparently this might be new to some people, you can use it on just about any button/link you come across in your browser. It's handy while watching videos or when browsing a forum.
I actually have mine set to my scroll wheel on my mouse. So, I just scroll wheel click on stuff and get the same effect.
Ha ha. Well look who's super
Ha ha. Well look who's super special now! :)
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:P
:P
Tutorial?
I didn't mark the article as a tutorial, it's just a quick tip. Not everyone "lives" in their browser. I've been using Firefox for years, as well as Safari, and I never even thought of Command clicking on the back or forward buttons.
While most people know you can Command click a link to open it in a new tab, I thought this one might be a little less known, and thus thought it worthy of mentioning.
If you have any further tips readers may not know about, please create a post and list them - I know I always appreciate learning new tricks!
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thanks!
I didn't know that.
Tab bar
I realize that one can click on the Tab Bar to open another Tab. However, if the Tab bar is not active then one has to do a KB CMD-T. Is there a way to have the Tab bar active all the time?
you should look into the tab
you should look into the tab mix plus add on. it lets you set the tab bar always active along with a whole lot of other neat options.
maybe what we should really do is start a thread with "my fave FF add ons." and maybe i'll do that.
If you mean the tab bar
If you mean the tab bar always showing then FF has a preference for that.
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As does Safari
As does Safari. In fact, most browsers have a preference for always showing the tab bar.
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Handy tip
nice tip thanks. Any shortcut to open a new window instead of a new tab? That comes in handy if you're watching a vid. Also, I didn't see this mentioned, if you hold down shift + apple/command and click on a link, you won't lose your focus on the page you're looking at. If you just do apple/command + click, then you automatically shift focus to the new tab.
Command + N
Even if you have links set to open in a new tab, if you hit Command + N, a new window will open.
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There's a preference for
There's a preference for this too in most browsers. Use command + click on a link and you can set whether that new window is focused on or not.
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Safari
Hooray, thanks for the tip.