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Topic: Tabs in Firefox

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Shades

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Posted: Dec. 18 2005,08:04

I'm trying to make Firefox open up tabs like I am used to in Winblows.

In winblows I use the Slimbrowser web browser made by flashpeak.com and I love it and I'm spoiled by it. I like how when I click on a link in my bookmarks it will automatically open a new tab right beside the tab that I have open. I can click 10 different bookmarks and it will give me 10 different tabs one right next to the other. I also can type any url in the address bar and it will open the new url in a new tab right next to the previous tab.

Try as I might and search as I might I can't find a way to do this in Firefox on my DSL. I've got my settings like this at the moment:

Tabbed Browsing:

Open links from applications in:
New window
X-new tab in most recent window
the most recent tab/window

I added the next part in a user.js file that mozilla site told me to create:

Force links that open to new to open in:
same tab/window as the link
X-new tab

I have three out of the four next options checked.

select new tabs opened from links
select new tabs opened from bookmarks or history
warn when closing multiple tabs

I know there is the keyboard shortcut of holding down the ctrl key but I'm after the tab to open by itself with nothing but a click.

Is there any way possible for me to force Firefox to do my bidding?

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mikshaw

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Posted: Dec. 18 2005,18:19

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but with firefox you can open up a series of bookmarks (within a bookmark subfolder) into individual tabs using "Open in Tabs". If you have a bookmarks subfolder containing 10 bookmarks, you'll get 10 tabs.

You can also bookmark a set of existing tabs so that it will create a subfolder just for those new bookmarks.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Shades

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Joined: Oct. 2005

Posted: Dec. 19 2005,02:48

Thanks Mikshaw, That's close to what I want but I don't think I'll ever find any linux web browser that will do what I truly want. I did see now that I can click on my bookmarks and before I click on one of the shortcuts I can right click and then tell it open into a tab and not a window.

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