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New Tab shortcut

Ivan's picture

I know this is a basic tip, but every second person in my office was unaware of it and they encouraged me to post it as something very useful. So here it goes.

This works in most browsers that support tabbed browsing. To create a new tab you can press Apple-T (Cmd-T) and to open a link from an existing page in a new tab you can hold Apple (Cmd) and click.

I think tabbed browsing is enabled in Firefox by default, but you need to enable it manually in Safari. Just go to Preferences/ Tabs /Enable tabbed browsing to get going. If you're using IE6-, you're out of luck, but it looks like IE7 will have it.

Greg's picture

Great tip, I've been using

Great tip, I've been using it since I got my PB and it saves me a lot of time actually.

Does anyone know if there is a shortcut to cycle through open tabs? Thanks.

my work: http://www.one-waymedia.com

Phosphor's picture

Control + Tab will cycle

Control + Tab will cycle through open tabs in Firefox.

thermanlee's picture

Shift-Cmd+Arrow Keys

Left and right to scroll left and right (at least in Safari). I found this accidentally one time while thinking I was in another program.

In Firefox, Cmd+(number of tab you wish to access) works really well.

Greg's picture

Great!! Thank you!! :c) my

Great!! Thank you!! :c)

my work: http://www.one-waymedia.com

geoff's picture

You can also drag the link

You can also drag the link to the tab bar if you're too lazy to use your "keyboard" hand

Ivan's picture

Now, THIS is something I

Now, THIS is something I didn't know. Thank you!

evilblender's picture

moving between tabs

One nice thing with those tabs, is that you can press --- cmd-shift (left or right arrow key) to move between them.

HTH,
jeff

JoshuaTree's picture

Middle Mouse Button

I porsonally use the middle mouse click to open links in new tabs behind the one I'm currently viewing. This helps in that I can click all the links I want to read later from a certain page (i.e. CB RSS feed) and still see what I'm doing in the current page.

- JoshuaTree

Josh's picture

Middle click doesn't work for me :(

I'm used to middle-clicking too, but for some reason FF on Tiger doesn't seem to recongize that for me.

I even made sure middle-click was not assigned to any other thing, and still no dice.

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Josh Stevens | Nautilus7 Design
My CB Blog

Three Degrees's picture

You need to make the middle

You need to make the middle click assigned to cmd+click for firefox

Josh's picture

May be a stupid question,

May be a stupid question, but how do I do that? LOL

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Josh Stevens | Nautilus7 Design
My CB Blog

pechos's picture

Mouse Gestures

Hey,

Seems like all you guys appreciate shortcuts.
I am a huge fan of the Firefox Mouse Gestures Extension.
I take advantage of as many extensions as I can, if you have yet to check them out you might be pretty impressed!

Back to the mouse gestures; you can basically complete shortcuts through a series of mouse gestures while holding down the right mouse button (PC) and executing different mouse movements. Pretty Slick.
Now that I think of it though, maybe this wouldn't work for all you Mac Users.

That's a pisser.

Ivan's picture

Excellent plug-in!

Fortunately it does work on Mac, but I could never got used to it.

nighthwk1's picture

Cycling between tabs

You can also press CTRL PgUp / PgDown to cycle through open tabs...

Dulcepixels's picture

I simply

LOVE tabs. :) Thanks for the cycling tips.

Static's picture

i have my hand

since i'm using ff, i got used to have my left hand near the ctrl key so i can do a quick ctrl+t! :D
//Static

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