firefox url plugin

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 09:44, Collins Richey wrote:
> Just curious to learn if anyone has encountered a plugin that would do
> what I would like to see.
>
> When you are browsing through a number of sites (lets say Linux Today
> or Google search results), firefox puts the urls in a list of finite
> size when you open a new link. After selecting a nother link, you can
> use the "dot" to the right of the back arrow to go back several spets
> at one whack, if you haven't flushed the desired link from the list by
> means of too many intermediate link references.
>
> What I would like to see and I would kill for that feature is the
> ability to control the process manually, ie
>
> 1. Click on a tab or use a keystroke to record the current url in a
> private space (lets say its a Google results page).
> 2. browse through any number of links as an intermediat operation
> 3. return to the origina; results page with one or two key/mouse strokes
> 4. Browse through some other links
> 5. Return to 3 ad infinitum or until I eliminate the mark

Been thinking about this one.   And did some discovery.....

If you hold down CTL while clicking on a link in Firefox, it will open the new 
URL in a new tab.

Thus, if you've done a google search, holding the CTL for the first link you 
click on opens that link in a new tab....   and you can switch back to the 
google list by click the old tab.  (or better, by closing the tab you opened 
from the search list thus putting you back on the google search tab.

Wouldn't this do what you want?


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