firefox url plugin

[Alma J Wetzker]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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?

Setup your prefs so that clicking on the middle button (the mouse wheel 
on my trackball) opens the link in a new tab.

     -- Alma