firefox url plugin

[Net Llama!]

On 02/26/2006 08:38 AM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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.)

The tab-browser extension allows this.

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