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Came across gobootstrap.com - pretty nice

I learned something new today thanks to you and I thought I'd share it.

If you select a link then drag and drop it over the "New Tab" toolbar button in firefox, it opens the page in a tab in the background. Nice huh?

I knew you could drop it over the address bar, but I never wanted to leave the current page so I rarely used it that way.

Of course you have to have the "New Tab" button active in your toolbar, which I've always had since phoenix, and I wonder why firefox doesn't come with it active by default, but I digress...

Another way: If you have a scroll wheel you can middle-click on a link to open in a new tab.

I totally agree about the "New Tab" button being up by default. It's the first thing I do when I'm on another computer without it.

Edit: But that would only work if it was an actual link. Plain text doesn't work obviously.

You can also drop the selected text just to the right of the rightmost tab, left of the "scroll tabs right" arrow. When you're over the right spot, a down-pointing arrow appears indicating that a new tab will be created there. This actually works between any two tabs too, but the drop area can be smaller.

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