How do you open a new search window in a new tab?
Say I’ve got three tabs open and I want to open the home page of my browser in a new tab (the fourth) while not messing with the other three.
How?
middle click on the “Home” button in the tool bar.
If you can’t middle click on something, you can always go where you want in two steps by opening a new tab under the “File” menu.
If you already have tabs open you can #2 click on the tab bar to bring up a menu with ‘New Tab’. If you don’t have tabs open then you’ll have to do the File menu thing.
You can always open a new tab by pressing ctrl+T, which is what I do. You can also install the very useful Googlebar Lite for FireFox, which can be configured to open its searches in a new tab.
Thanks guys. I just realised that my mouse wheel is the ‘middle’ click. That opens a new home page tab if I click on the home button. That’s all I really needed to know, how to open the home page on a new tab. 
I knew that right clicking on the tab bar would open a window, but it wasn’t the Home window.
If anyone else checks in here feel free to add some tricks if you think they’re obscure enough to be interesting.
Go get the extension, Tab Mix Plus.
Awesome, done.
You may want to put the New Tab button on your toolbar. I have that instead of the Home button, which I never use (I have my “home” set to a blank page anyway).
That way, you can open a new tab with an easy left-click.
(Ooh, can I piggyback/hijack this thread with another Firefox question please?)
I used to have an extension installed whereby the text that pops up when you hover the mouse over a link is several lines long, as opposed to just one.
e.g. When I hover the mouse over the title of this thread, I get:
whereas I used to have something like:
Had no luck searching the mozilla site, does anyone know what this extension is called?
(It isn’t Cooliris, which pops up the whole page on the other end of the link, the one I had only increases the amount of text displayed when I hover)
Thanks in advance.
How about Long Titles?
That’s the fella!
Thanks again.
I have yet another question about tabs. Does anyone know if it is possible in Firefox to transfer a tab (with all its history, if possible) into a new window?
Thanks from me too! Two nifty new things I’ve learned in two days on SDMB (how to insert the code for pointing at a single message in SDMB, and now this)! I’m on a roll!
Install Tab Mix Plus (link above). Then you can click on the tab, and this is an option in the pop up menu.
I don’t know if this feature is Firefox-out-of-the-box, or whether I’ve got it because I’ve installed an Add-on or a Google feature but…
Select text on a web page, right-click it and one of the options is “Search Google for SELECTED TEXT”
If you click on this option, a new tab will appear with the Google search.
Thanks. I’ll check this.
Since this is the latest Firefox thread, I might as well throw a question out there. I see that Tab Mix Plus allows for the tabs to appear at the bottom of the browser, but how does one get the address bar to do the same? I use Opera as my primary browser, but I occasionally open Firefox, and I’d like its display to be similar to the way I have Opera set up. Is there an extension that handles this; or, did I miss a setting in the default install?
Why would someone need this feature?
Peter Morris, I didn’t see that option in the pop-up window for a tab option. There was a “copy tab URL” option but nothing for re-imaging a tab complete with history.
Tools->Tab Mix Plus Options-> Menu->Tab Context Menu
shows a list of options that you can turn off and on. Move To New Window is one of these.
You ARE the man!