TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

[Ian Ramsey-Planck]

Just so I get this straight, you're looking to have every and all links you
click open in a new tab??

When you select "open links in a new tab", on peoples website where they've
set target="" _new or _blank, firefox will make sure THOSE links open in a
new tab, but links without that attribute target won't open in a new tab
unless you hold control while clicking, center clicking, or right clicking.

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:49 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

At 05:45 PM 5/9/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>I have TabMixPlus set so that every single click opens in a new tab>


Ok, I installed the Tabmix addon as you said. Then closed and re-opened 
Firefox.

It's set to open new links in tabs. But no, Firefox still stubbornly 
refuses to do tabbed browsing when left-clicking.  I still have to go back 
and forth one page at a time using the back button when googling, for
example.

I tried centre-clicking links as H Davis has suggested, and that produces 
tabbed browsing. I suppose I could get used to centre-clicking links, 
though it feels a bit strange at first. I guess I can learn to live with
that.

Is that what everyone else does?

Meantime, the tab bar has gone back to the top again.

Thanks to H Davis for his tips on bookmarking etc. But I still find 
bookmarking rather clumsy in Firefox. I can get a folder into the links 
bar, but can't get it to open as a folder---the cascading form is too 
inconvenient. I checked out the bookmark addons, but nothing much useful
there.

For example, let's say I have a bookmarks folder named "Techsites" in IE 
Favourites containing 50 links.

With Maxthon, I can open that (or any other folder) with one click on the 
numeric keypad, then open any link from there. I'd like to do the same in 
FF, though I'm not yet ready to make FF my default browser.

Could I make a duplicate of that folder, called say "FFTechsites" such that 
its links open by default in FF instead of my default browser Maxthon? 
Changing all the file associations individually would be most tedious. 
Changing them globally would effectively make FF the default browser.

Maybe one day I'll be as enthusiastic as you guys when I get around its
bugs.

I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun exploring all the addons.  (I've already 
been through all that with Maxthon).

Now solved 2.5 problems out of 3, thanks to you guys. But there'll be more, 
so don't go to sleep just yet.

Don Penlington




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