Mozilla Open in Tab

[Guerri Stevens]

Is there a shortcut key for opening a link in a tab in Mozilla? I've been pointing at links and right clicking to do it.

Which reminds me that today at one point when I did that, I don't get the "open in tab" message. The page opened in a new window and refused to give me a choice.

[Gary Maltzen]

Is there a shortcut key
Ctrl-click

[Lindsey]

Which reminds me that today at one point when I did that, I don't get the "open in tab" message. The page opened in a new window and refused to give me a choice.
It depends on what the link actually is. If it's a pop-up window (which I think uses Javascript), you can't open it in a tab, you have to let it do its own thing.

--Lindsey

[Guerri Stevens]

Ctrl+click doesn't work. I think it works for a URL, but not, for instance, to open a thread here.

[Judy G. Russell]

Where are you trying to click in order to open a thread here?

[Lindsey]

Where are you trying to click in order to open a thread here?
Dunno about Gueri, but if I Ctrl-Click on a thread title, it opens in a new window. That might be because I don't have some option set to use Ctrl-Click. I haven't bothered--I don't like hybrid keyboard-mouse actions as a rule, and some vendor documentation we have at work that requires Ctrl-Click to open a link at all drives me nuts. I prefer all mouse or all keyboard, so I just right-click on the link and then click the "Open in new tab" link.

--Lindsey

[Judy G. Russell]

It works for me as well. That's why I need to know what Guerri may be trying, specifically, since it may be something I'm not seeing.

[Lindsey]

Oh. Well, her complaint was that it was opening in a new window rather than a tab, and that's what it does for me as well, but I think that's what Ctrl-click always does for me.

--Lindsey

[Judy G. Russell]

It's usually a setting -- in Mozilla, Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Tabbed Browsing, and then set the option on the right hand side.

[Guerri Stevens]

Judy, I don't remember what exactly I was trying to ctrl+click on. However, I just went into my settings and "Open Tabs instead of Windows for" did not have a check for "middle click, ctrl+click, ..." so I checked it.

I'll see if I can figure out what I was trying to do, exactly.

Hmm, another thing is that I have a touch pad and I usually "click" by tapping the pad, not using one of the buttons.

[Mike]

I use Ctrl+Click on my touchpad to open a new tab in Firefox, and it works just fine.

[Judy G. Russell]

I just went into my settings and "Open Tabs instead of Windows for" did not have a check for "middle click, ctrl+click, ..." so I checked it.
That's the answer then. And CTRL+touchpad works just as well now that you have the settings right.

[MollyM/CA]

I'm using my laptop here all the time now and ctrl-tap (touchpad) works fine. One thing --I remapped the keys and for some weird reason, until I installed service pack 2, the remapped "control" (now on left CapsLock key) only worked for editing, not for "program" type things. I had to use the unchanged right control-tap.

[Guerri Stevens]

Yes, it seems to be working now. I am slowly getting the hang of things here, but it is just not the same as telling TAPCIS to log on and grab all the new stuff (sigh).

[Judy G. Russell]

it is just not the same as telling TAPCIS to log on and grab all the new stuff (sigh).
I know... I know...