firefox url plugin

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 2/25/06, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:51 pm, someone claiming to be Collins Richey
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On 2/25/06, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Setup your prefs so that clicking on the middle button (the mouse wheel
>>>>on my trackball) opens the link in a new tab.
>>>
>>>OK, how might I do that? In a brief tour of preferences, I found no such
>>>option.
>>>
>>
>>about:config
>>filter on "tabs"
>>look for:
>>browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick
>>
>>although, it looks like the default is set to have middle-click open a new
>>tab, so you shouldn't have to do anything...
>>
> 
> Aha, yes that's the defau;t setting on my Firefox. One further
> question: is there a way to have the middle button click action also
> switch focus to the new tab? On my Firefox, at least, the new tab is
> created, but focus remains with the source tab, and the effect, unless
> you look carefully at the tabs row, is as though the middle click had
> been ignored.
>

I haven't even looked.  I tend to look through a page, middle clicking 
on what I want, then read the stuff in whatever order sounds 
interesting.  (I like to finish one train of thought before starting on 
another.  I get confuzled easily.)

     -- Alma