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How to open a link on a new tab in firefox
In Firefox when I click on a link I want to open the link in a new tab.
Followed the steps mentioned in the official doc but that doesn't work:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1260343
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Firefox: initial focus after opening new tab
When I open a new tab, the text cursor focuses on the address bar. Is it possible to focus on the search bar instead, by default?
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Is there a way to copy URLs from all open tabs in a Google Chrome (or other browser) window into an email?
Are there any Google Chrome extensions that would allow you to copy the URLs of all open tabs into the clipboard, or even better, to send them to a new Gmail message?
My personal scenario is house ...
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How to Make Chrome Not Load Tabs Until They are Selected?
I have over 20 tabs opened in Chrome and need to restart browser from time to time. This browser does not have option similar to Firefox's "Do not load tabs until selected" loading tabs only after ...
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Firefox tab shifting like in Opera
In Opera there is a nice feature that keeps me hooked:
Shift+Tab will move to the last opened tab. Pressing Shift+Tab then subsequent tabs (Shift+Tab then Tab again) breaks out of the last used tab ...
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How to stop Firefox's session restore from loading all of my tabs at once?
When I use Firefox I often have many tabs and many windows open (even more so now that they have panorama). I often use the session restore feature because I don't want to lose all my open windows ...
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Can I "restore tabs" in Microsoft Edge from another user's profile?
I had a new User Profile created for me, with the old User Profile still available and readable by me.
I am a bit hesitant about doing a "rough" Edge user data migration, of just copying the ...
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Is there a shortcut for switching between 2 open tabs back & forth?
I was wondering, is it possible to switch between two open tabs using a single shortcut, i.e. if x+y is the shortcut, then pressing it switches between two adjacent tabs. Much like Alt+Tab in Windows.
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How to get old tab switching behavior back in Firefox?
At some point in Firefox's version history, switching tabs with ctrl+tab (right) and ctrl+shift+tab (left) got replaced by bringing up a selection of windows that the user can switch through, akin to ...
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Firefox, how to have very small tab size and no tab-scroll buttons
Both Chrome and Firefox introduced the Search tabs list menu.
In my view, this completely negates the need for the (very annoying imo) tab-scrolling feature of Firefox (i.e. when you have what they ...
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VPN only in a single Google Chrome tab
I'm wondering if there is the possibility to use VPN only for a specific tab in Google Chrome.
Now I'm using a Google Chrome VPN extension, but it has a systemic effect.
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How can I get Firefox to open a cached version of a page in new tabs?
At work, we use a bug-tracking system to keep track of what work needs to be done. I can set the new tab page to be a list of all of my bugs, however this page loads slowly, as the site queries a ...
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How to access reading list in a full page, special internal URLs?
When you use reading list feature in Chrome, it always go to sidebar.
Is there a way to access it via address bar? So it can be wider and not just sidebar.
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Is there a way to save all opened tabs to clipboard for pasting?
Is there a way in Microsoft Edge Browser to save all my opened tabs to my clipboard with the link to the sites and their titles that I can copy and paste anywhere instantly as text?
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Change font size of tab titles in Google Chrome
I am browing a peculiar domain in Chrome. In doing so, my Google Chrome tabs have long names, and often the names don't fit in the space there is. So, I find myself repeatedly dragging my mouse to the ...
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How do I open whole Chrome tab group on another machine?
Is there anyone able to move tab groups as is from one Chrome to another?
I did follow this URL: How can I open a whole Chrome tab group on another machine? but no solution.
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How to make Google Chrome's tabs behave more like Firefox?
Is there a way to have the following in Google Chrome, like Firefox?
A right arrow slider to navigate the tabs.
A drop down list of open tabs.
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Stop Auto-Playing YouTube Videos When Restoring Google Chrome Session Tabs Only
I regularly have a large number of tabs open, and often several of these tabs are YouTube videos which have been paused. For the sake of an example, let's say I have 12 tabs with paused YouTube videos ...
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How to open multiple URLs in Chrome/Firefox and then save them individually?
If I have a .txt file containing a list of URLs, how can I get Chrome or Firefox to open them, one URL per tab and then save the page in each tab separately?
Any platform will do: Windows, Mac, Linux....
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What's the syntax of URL exceptions in Chrome's "Always keep these sites active"?
I want to keep certain tabs from ever being discarded automatically by Chrome. The settings have a section for doing so, but the syntax of the exceptions is not clear. Should I use regexes? Globs? ...
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How to increase Ctrl+tab cycle stack in Firefox
Is there a setting or code to increase the default Ctrl_Tab stack before "show all 386 tabs", (which do NOT show in order visited)? Only 5 tabs are available. (Note- if you close the 5 tabs listed in ...
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Find an open tab in Chrome browser
Added: u1686_grawity helpfully notes that Ctrl-Shift-A achieves the same result, while being different from the access method that I was searching for. I'd still like top know why it comes and goes, ...
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How to change color of a tab in Firefox Quantum?
I'm trying to change the color of one or more tabs (not necessarily the one that is currently selected). At least the color needs to be in the area where the tab title is displayed, not sure what this ...
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How to split table vertically in MS Word?
I want to create a table with 4 columns and many rows in MS Word 2013. I want to split the table vertically into 4 tables close to each other (e.g. 10 mm distance to each other).
I saw some tutorial ...
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Determine which tab in Firefox is using CPU resources?
Is there anything in the current Firefox similar to the Task Manager in Google Chrome? (Shift + Esc)
There is something that occasionally takes up enough CPU to make Firefox unresponsive - but with ...
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How can I unload a tab manually?
Firefox has a setting "Don't load tabs until selected" (see How do I make Firefox 13 Load All My Tabs on Startup or when Resuming Reload). I like that behaviour.
I am searching for a way to "deload"/...
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How to prevent background tabs from loading in Firefox?
I am searching for what the "Don't load tabs until selected" options promises in Firefox.
As it seems the option works fine when Firefox is set to load the tabs from the last session upon ...
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Is there a method to export the URLs of the open tabs of a Firefox window?
If I have a Firefox window open that contains 10 tabs, is there a way in Firefox or by a plug-in to get the URLs of those 10 tabs as a text file or some other format?
Right now if I want to do this I ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open new tab next to current tab in Google Chrome
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or is there a way to create one without any extensions or third-party stuff) that opens a new tab next to the currently open tab?
For example, let's say I have 10 tabs ...
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Make Microsoft Edge shortcuts open up separate windows?
I just started using Microsoft's Edge.
When creating URL shortcuts or batch files for opening websites in Microsoft Edge, is there a way the websites can be opened up in new windows and not tabbed ...
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Firefox - Open specific link in all tabs?
I'm looking for a Firefox addon that will let me open a bunch of tabs like this:
www.website.com/user.php?num=350
www.website.com/user.php?num=241
www.website.com/user.php?num=125
And then click a ...
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Showing bookmarks in new tab in firefox
I would like to enable Firefox to show only my bookmarks as tiles
I open a new tab. I don't want it to show tiled snapshots of the past sites I have visited which is the current default behaviour.
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Firefox: How to move tabs to the bottom of the window?
I followed this instruction;
#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }
but the code doesn't work.
Another way is to use Tabmix Plus extension, but the current version of Tabmix is ...
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How to get tab count in Chrome desktop without app/extension?
How can I view the number of open tabs in Chrome (desktop) without installing an app or extension?
On Chrome for iOS it's easy, just look in the top right for the number:
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How do I prevent Firefox from closing tabs on middle click?
This has become more of an issue since I got a Magic Mouse and have middle-click mapped as 3-finger touch. It's always annoyed me that Firefox even does this--is there a way to prevent firefox from ...
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Get the number of open tabs in Firefox
While using Firefox I want to keep tabs on the number of open tabs (pun intended). Is there a way to quickly get this number while using the browser?
In older versions of Firefox there was a pop up ...
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Firefox: Open tab in other window?
I recently got a second monitor, and I have found myself using it with a second browser window open, viewing secondary pages that I may want to quickly look at while using my primary monitor.
The ...
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Disable ability to pull a tab off of Chrome
I'm so sick of mistakenly pulling my Chrome tabs out of the tab list when i click on it, and having it open in a new window. I'm always pulling them off, then having to drop them back.
Does anyone ...
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Where does Firefox store the opened windows/tabs/URLs for session restore after a crash?
In which location and file does Firefox save the last windows I had opened (when Firefox crashed)?
I have a complete "hot dump" copy of a file system and need to restore the state Firefox was when ...
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Chrome browser tab shares, how can I find who is it shared with?
I am using Chrome browser on Windows 11
I am worried about my computer security and don't want to underestimate any issue.
I have been seeing this sign which says "This tab content is being ...
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Firefox Extension: New Tab Shortcuts per Container? [closed]
I can pin shortcut icons on the new tab page. Has anyone found a Firefox extension that displays pinned icons based on the container chosen? e.g. The new tab page icons for the banking container ...
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Chrome Incognito Window with 50+ tabs turned black, I cannot close the window because of my tabs. How do i restart only rendering w/o closing Chrome?
The issue was described here more than 3 years ago: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/9461262?hl=en
It seems this issue has never been fixed. I was playing a YouTube video on one of my ...
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disable firefox's control+w
How can firefox's keyboard shortcut control+W, which closes a tab, be disabled? There's nothing in about:config under browser.tabs.
(When in a web session that is a virtual host's console, that's the ...
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Is there a Page Snooze add-on for Firefox?
I'm really taken by the Google Chrome extension "Page Snooze", which lets you close a tab and schedule it to reappear in say a week.
Is there any add-on/extension like Page Snooze for Firefox?
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Firefox change tab title
I would like to change tab title for specific site like facebook.com to some custom text. The reason why is because I don't want to see notification(s) count in the tab title, while I am browsing ...
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How to forget the contents of all Firefox tabs (releasing RAM), and refreashing a tab to re-access site when needed?
I want to run a game but my RAM is full and I can't close my Firefox windows due to needing them later for my workflow.
So I'm wondering, is it possible to tell Firefox to simply forget every site it ...
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How can I search for text in all tabs in Firefox?
I have a number of opened tabs and I want to search for a word in all of them (just as you would do in any decent editor on you desktop).
I found an extension Find In Tabs, but its outdated and doesn'...
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Google Chrome background tabs don't load/build until selected in 2023
Trying to get Chrome to load pages when I "open link in new tab"
Win10 64bit
Version 109.0.5414.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Edge - new tab focus behavior
Is there a way to let Edge focus on the address bar once I open a new tab?
I experience the following behavior:
Open Edge
Ctrl + t (new tab)
Type e.g. www.myfavouriteaddress.com
Issue: The typing ...
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Chrome switch n tabs right/left
I navigate between tabs using shortcuts to switch to the right/left tab (ctrl-(shift)-tab). It can take a lot of strokes if the target tab is quite far.
Any shortcut/extension/script to skip n tabs ...
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