Comments on: Firefox customization

By: eltonic40

eltonic40 — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:00:30 +0000

I’ve been doing a little search… but nothing has shown up. Is there a way to get firefox act like Opera by saving tab (urls) when closing the entire application, so that when i can RESUME browsing?

By: Jono

Jono — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:04:54 +0000

Safari, for Mac OS X, does this natively, without additional software, using the following settings:

Preferences< General:
Open links from applications: in the current window
(This applies to links from Mail, iChat, etc.)

THEN

Preferences< Tabs:
[] Enable Tabbed Browsing
[] Select new tabs as they are created

Easy! I have switched my default borwser to Firefox 0.9.3 (for OS X) (for web developement purposes) but I hate that Firefox cannot handle tabs as well as Safari. Maybe in future versions it will be easier.

I tried tinkering with the about:config settings with no luck. It seems like one of the following would control the tab settings:
browser.always_reuse_window
broswer.block.target_new_window
browser.tabs.loadInBackground
browser.tabs.loadOnNewWindow

By: marius

marius — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:49:17 +0000

@ rrgw:

look for the “single-window” extension.

tools->extensions->get more extensions
category “tabbed browsing”, there it is at the bottom…. single window 1.4, just click install and ready!

By: rrgw

rrgw — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:30:37 +0000

How can I customize Firefox so that whenever I click a link, a new tab is opened by default instead of a new window?

Thanks a lot!!

rr.

By: bob vance

bob vance — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:26:05 +0000

To be totally precise ;>) , ctrl+link (as well as right-click-link/open-new-tab) opens/focuses new tab based on the “Select new tabs opened from links” setting. SHIFT+ctrl+link simply reverses the behavior. (v1.7 / 0.9.1)

I seem to mostly want focus, so I currrently have the above setting checked. When I *do* want to “save” the new tab and keep browsing, then SHIFT+ctrl+link (or SHIFT+link for open-link-in-new-window) does it.

By: Dan Moore

Dan Moore — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:07:39 +0000

heteronym,

I have to say that I’m now using Mozilla 1.7, and I’m actually quite annoyed at times that it doesn’t mimic Firefox’s behavior! I think what you want to happen depends on what you’re doing. When I’m browsing my RSS feed, I want to open links in new tabs and keep browsing. When I’m looking at a mail message with a link, when I open it in a tab, I want to be taken to the tab.

I haven’t tried John’s suggestions, but if those work, that certainly is the best of both worlds.

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:03:20 +0000

Shift+Ctrl+Link opens new tab and gains focus, Ctrl+Link opnes new tab and focus remains with original tab

By: heteronym

heteronym — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:26:22 +0000

In Firefox 0.9, the pref is still in Tools->Options->Advanced->Browsing, but the wording has been changed to “Select new tabs opened from links”.

Seems to me that switching focus to the new tab should be the default behavior, but that’s just one guy’s opinion.

By: nushibaby

nushibaby — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:17:18 +0000

mate, you just go options -> advanced -> browsing

and then check/uncheck the ‘open links in background’ option