[CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

I have Firefox set to "new pages should be opened in a new 
tab".  This works fine if I click on a link in a new email.  However, 
if I attempt to open a new site from my Personal Tool Bar, the new 
page opens in the tab that is currently open.


Am I doing something wrong?  The only way I can seem to have more 
than one tab is to open a new tab first.


Sue


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tony B]

I use my middle mouse button to open links in new tabs.


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sue Cubic  wrote:
> I have Firefox set to "new pages should be opened in a new tab".  This works
> fine if I click on a link in a new email.  However, if I attempt to open a
> new site from my Personal Tool Bar, the new page opens in the tab that is
> currently open.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  The only way I can seem to have more than one
> tab is to open a new tab first.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

At 04:29 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:

I use my middle mouse button to open links in new tabs.


I don't have a middle mouse button. :)  So I'm not missing something 
in the controls setup?


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tom Piwowar]

> Am I doing something wrong?  The only way I can seem to have more than one
> tab is to open a new tab first.

Command-click on the link.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tony B]

A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.

As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
you considered a mouse for the laptop?

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Sue Cubic  wrote:
> At 04:29 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> I use my middle mouse button to open links in new tabs.
>
> I don't have a middle mouse button. :)  So I'm not missing something in the
> controls setup?


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[b_s-wilk]

I have Firefox set to "new pages should be opened in a new tab".
This works fine if I click on a link in a new email.  However, if I
attempt to open a new site from my Personal Tool Bar, the new page
opens in the tab that is currently open.

Am I doing something wrong?  The only way I can seem to have more
than one tab is to open a new tab first.



In Firefox/Seamonkey/Flock/Camino location bar type:  about:config

In search field type:tab

That gives you all the available choices for how you want tabs to work.
Double-click on any and you can change the parameters. Confused? This
explains many of the settings,
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries. For 
more, try http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences


You can create your own too!

Betty


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

At 05:08 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:

A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.

As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
you considered a mouse for the laptop?


No, not a laptop.  It's a Logitech Trackman Wheel mouse.  No center 
button--in the center is a scroll wheel.  I have 2 of these 
mouses/mice/meese?--one for my desktop and one for my laptop.  It's 
the only thing I've ever found that doesn't wreck my hand.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

At 05:22 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:


In Firefox/Seamonkey/Flock/Camino location bar type:  about:config

In search field type:tab

That gives you all the available choices for how you want tabs to work.
Double-click on any and you can change the parameters. Confused? This
explains many of the settings,
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries. For 
more, try http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences


You can create your own too!

Betty



Thanks, Betty!  I found the list, now I just need to explore what 
they all mean!


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tony B]

Heh. That scroll wheel *is* your middle mouse button. Press it down.


On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Sue Cubic  wrote:
> No, not a laptop.  It's a Logitech Trackman Wheel mouse.  No center
> button--in the center is a scroll wheel.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

At 08:22 PM 4/10/2009 -0400, you wrote:

Heh. That scroll wheel *is* your middle mouse button. Press it down.


I know that it locks the scroll, but didn't know it did anything 
else.  I'll be darned! :)


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[b_s-wilk]

A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
available.

As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
you considered a mouse for the laptop?


That's odd. I rarely see anyone using a mouse with their notebooks that 
they carry around, only with desktop-replacement ones at home.


All Mozilla apps had click-and-hold contextual menus as a default until 
Firefox 3. Even though I have a mouse that can do right/left click, I 
like the click-and-hold method better. Dumped the multi-buttons when my 
trackball died years ago.


To return that preference to it's proper default, go back to 
about:config. Enter "click" [no quotes] as your filter in the search 
field. For ui.click_hold_context_menus, set value as true. You'll see 
other settings that you can change, like 
browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick [not much good for a one- or 
two-button mouse], and browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects.



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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Judy Cosler]

where is this 'about:conifg?'

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:43 PM, b_s-wilk  wrote:

> A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
>> mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
>> available.
>>
>> As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
>> can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
>> want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
>> you considered a mouse for the laptop?
>>
>
> That's odd. I rarely see anyone using a mouse with their notebooks that
> they carry around, only with desktop-replacement ones at home.
>
> All Mozilla apps had click-and-hold contextual menus as a default until
> Firefox 3. Even though I have a mouse that can do right/left click, I like
> the click-and-hold method better. Dumped the multi-buttons when my trackball
> died years ago.
>
> To return that preference to it's proper default, go back to about:config.
> Enter "click" [no quotes] as your filter in the search field. For
> ui.click_hold_context_menus, set value as true. You'll see other settings
> that you can change, like browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick [not much good
> for a one- or two-button mouse], and browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects.
>
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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tony B]

You type that into your address box (about:config). But be careful.
Don't change anything in there unless you know what you're doing.
Really, the only options you might need to change for tabs is in the
Tools>Options>Tabs.


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Judy Cosler  wrote:
> where is this 'about:conifg?'
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:43 PM, b_s-wilk  wrote:
>
>> A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
>>> mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
>>> available.
>>>
>>> As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
>>> can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
>>> want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
>>> you considered a mouse for the laptop?
>>>
>>
>> That's odd. I rarely see anyone using a mouse with their notebooks that
>> they carry around, only with desktop-replacement ones at home.
>>
>> All Mozilla apps had click-and-hold contextual menus as a default until
>> Firefox 3. Even though I have a mouse that can do right/left click, I like
>> the click-and-hold method better. Dumped the multi-buttons when my trackball
>> died years ago.
>>
>> To return that preference to it's proper default, go back to about:config.
>> Enter "click" [no quotes] as your filter in the search field. For
>> ui.click_hold_context_menus, set value as true. You'll see other settings
>> that you can change, like browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick [not much good
>> for a one- or two-button mouse], and browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects.
>>
>>
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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Judy Cosler]

into the URL address area? I think so, cuz I just got a big warning!

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tony B  wrote:

> You type that into your address box (about:config). But be careful.
> Don't change anything in there unless you know what you're doing.
> Really, the only options you might need to change for tabs is in the
> Tools>Options>Tabs.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Judy Cosler  wrote:
> > where is this 'about:conifg?'
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:43 PM, b_s-wilk  wrote:
> >
> >> A laptop? Strangely, everyone I know - myself included - drags around
> >>> mice with their laptops, so I *always* have a middle mouse button
> >>> available.
> >>>
> >>> As Tom said, if you don't mind using two hands there are hotkeys. You
> >>> can also right-click and "open link in new tab". Thing is, you don't
> >>> want EVERY link you click to open new tabs, only some of them. Have
> >>> you considered a mouse for the laptop?
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's odd. I rarely see anyone using a mouse with their notebooks that
> >> they carry around, only with desktop-replacement ones at home.
> >>
> >> All Mozilla apps had click-and-hold contextual menus as a default until
> >> Firefox 3. Even though I have a mouse that can do right/left click, I
> like
> >> the click-and-hold method better. Dumped the multi-buttons when my
> trackball
> >> died years ago.
> >>
> >> To return that preference to it's proper default, go back to
> about:config.
> >> Enter "click" [no quotes] as your filter in the search field. For
> >> ui.click_hold_context_menus, set value as true. You'll see other
> settings
> >> that you can change, like browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick [not much
> good
> >> for a one- or two-button mouse], and browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects.
> >>
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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tom Piwowar]

>But be careful.
>Don't change anything in there unless you know what you're doing.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config offers extensive documentation.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Sue Cubic]

At 10:03 AM 4/11/2009 -0400, you wrote:

You type that into your address box (about:config). But be careful.
Don't change anything in there unless you know what you're doing.
Really, the only options you might need to change for tabs is in the
Tools>Options>Tabs.


Or just use your middle mouse button! :)  Thanks, Tony--it works just 
the way I want it to!


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Tom Piwowar]

>That's odd. I rarely see anyone using a mouse with their notebooks that 
>they carry around, only with desktop-replacement ones at home.

I used to hate trackpads. Then Apple innovated all sorts of finger 
gymnastics (two-finger drag, three-finger drag etc.) that made the track 
pad as fast or maybe even faster for many common actions. I no longer 
hate trackpads. (Makes me wonder what would happen if Apple reworked 
Vista.)


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[b_s-wilk]

You type that into your address box (about:config). But be careful.
Don't change anything in there unless you know what you're doing.
Really, the only options you might need to change for tabs is in the
Tools>Options>Tabs.


The about:config window is available when you type it into the URL 
location bar at the top of the browser window. Firefox now gives you a 
warning that you're about to break something, but do you want to do it 
anyway.


If you're worried about breaking something, don't do it. However there 
are a lot of good preferences that are hidden in Firefox and can't be 
changed in Preferences or Tools/Options. The file is called *prefs.js*, 
located in the user profile for Firefox. Back that up first, and have 
fun turning things on and off.


Mozilla SeaMonkey lets you set the preferences for new windows and tabs, 
but most of those choices in Firefox are hidden. I can choose new tabs 
to open in the background with the same URL as the last window/tab in 
SeaMonkey, but not in Firefox. For that I copied that pref in SeaMonkey 
prefs.js and added it to Firefox.


When you don't know about useful preferences, you probably don't care to 
change them or create new ones, but you'll be missing a lot of handy prefs.



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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Jordan]

Speaking of all this: I thought I found somewhere in Firefox (I think it 
was an about:config setting) that tells the page to scroll to where ever 
I click in the scroll bar. Sort of a scroll to here.
I can't find this setting now. Could I be mistaken? Does Firefox do this 
by default? I'd like to get Seamonkey to do it.


Thanks


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs

[Jordan]

I was wrong. The setting is in OSX System Preferences/Appearance. I 
wonder why it doesn't work on Seamonkey?







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[CGUYS] Firefox tabs error

[Richard P.]

Here is the source page: http://www.bbqgalore.com/support/contact

When I right click on a link that turns out to be dead, such as
"Cooking Tips" (http://www.bbqgalore.com/backyard/cooking-tips.bbq),
and tell it to open in a new tab, it opens up a "Can't find this page"
message 
(http://avg.urlseek.vmn.net/search.php?tbn=avg&lg=us&type=404&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbqgalore.com%2Fbackyard%2Fcooking-tips.bbq),
on every open window I have. In order to get back to the original
window, I have to go back on each window. It looks like this is a
Firefox error rather than a website error because this has happened to
me on different websites in the last two days.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Win XP, SP3

Richard P.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs error

[Tom Piwowar]

>When I right click on a link that turns out to be dead...
>and tell it to open in a new tab, it opens up a "Can't find this page"
>message... on every open window I have.

I do have this happen from time to time, especially when I click on a 
string of news links from a news site. I have these open in a string of 
tabs so the pages will be fully loaded by the time I flip to them. When I 
later reload the "dead" pages they usually turns out to be fine. So I 
think this is more likely a DNS response problem, not a browser problem.


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Re: [CGUYS] Firefox tabs error

[b_s-wilk]

>When I right click on a link that turns out to be dead...
>and tell it to open in a new tab, it opens up a "Can't find this page"
>message... on every open window I have.


Broadbandreports.com  has a list of DNS 
servers you can use. Switch DNS. I have several "Locations" that I use 
in addition to Verizon's [my ISP] DNS. Here are a few of the thousands 
of choices, http://www.dnsserverlist.org/.


Sometimes DNS requires that the http://www... prefix the rest of the 
URL. Some services add that automatically.



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