Posted on 12/22/2004 8:32:38 AM PST by holymoly
Amen breddah!
Go here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
And check out the first sticky. It has some hints that cover a shortcut, or you can just do the standard dropdown file, open new tab.
BTW, in firefox you can go to bookmarks and then select a bookmark folder. Then tab to the bottom choice in the folder (open in tabs). When you do this, it opens every entry in the folder in tabs.
For me at work this is incredible. I can now setup folders specifically for groups of sites I know I want to bounce around in.
I will now actually use bookmarks and folders for more than just remembering sites.
dang...that's right.
I could make the leap from flying in daddy's lap as a kid (all Beech ..all the time) to the Firefox in short order.
Just keep think Kournikova and spiceba!
I just downloaded FireFox 20 minutes ago and wondered about the 'Tab' feature myself. Here's what I found: 1) File>New Tab (you will see the untitled tab in the tab bar) 2) drag and drop any link into the tab and you will see how it works. My first two are Drudge and of course FreeRepublic. Cool!!!
Watched FireFox last night .... of course for browsing I use slim Browser. Light fast and EASY. And secure as hell.
Mine has it, and I'm not even using the current version. (I'm on 0.9.3 for unspecified reasons.) Note that it doesn't work for me because I don't have a default mailer defined on my Linux system... because I don't use this system to send email.
Firefox is something of a paradigm shift (ick) for lots of Windows users because it generally does one thing, and does it VERY well: render web pages. It does not send email (that's its cousin, Thunderbird). It does not do spreadsheets or documents (that's the guy down the street, Open Office). Because of that fact, that it is not an email program, you're likely running into a "limitation". But trust me: it's the *right* way to do things.
3) Double-click on the tab bar to open a new blank tab. :-)
Under file, click on "send link"
I know about Opera's tabs, but I still like Firefox better.
Insead of clicking on a tab or a bookmark, rightclick it, then select "open in new tab."
Mmmmmm.... Enjoyment.
Thanks to all. It works great!
I like Firefox, as well. But I don't know that it's as flexible as IE. And I don't know that it is any less vulnerable. As it catches on, the thieves out there will attempt to break into it. But once you get a few 'toolbars' inadvertently installed on IE, BHOs, and a few other things, even after you pull them out it does seem to break down and become unstable, as if the libraries have been corrupted (or maybe some undocumented registry junk). And you don't want to have to reinstall the whole, everytime. But I still prefer IE over Firefox. We'll see if that remains true in a few months.
You might try Google searching Firefox blogs to see if it's been addressed.
That's why I'll never put that piece of crap on my computer. Always keep in mind that anyone, including Europeans and Chinese, can mess with Firefox' open source code and put all kinds of spyware into it. I'd rather stick with IE,
LOL! IE has always been given away for free.
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