# Mozilla/Firefox question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911 "2007-02-12T19:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/1 "2007-02-12T19:56:54Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/2 "2007-02-12T20:08:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/3 "2007-02-12T20:14:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/4 "2007-02-12T20:19:29Z")
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](http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/googlebarlite/) for FireFox, which can be configured to open its searches in a new tab. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/5 "2007-02-12T20:35:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/6 "2007-02-12T20:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] If anyone else checks in here feel free to add some tricks if you think they’re obscure enough to be interesting. [/QUOTE] Go get the extension, [Tab Mix Plus](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/). ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/7 "2007-02-12T21:00:23Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Go get the extension, [Tab Mix Plus](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/). [/QUOTE] Awesome, done. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/8 "2007-02-12T21:32:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zetetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/74df32/32.png) [@Zetetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zetetic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/9 "2007-02-12T22:29:41Z")
(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: > [@](#): > > “How do you open a new search window in a new tab? Say I’ve got three tabs open and…” whereas I used to have something like: > [@](#): > > "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?" 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. ---
**Author:** ![Omphaloskeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Omphaloskeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omphaloskeptic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/10 "2007-02-12T22:43:21Z")
[QUOTE=mtk\_] 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. Had no luck searching the mozilla site, does anyone know what this extension is called? [/QUOTE] How about [Long Titles](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1715/)? ---
**Author:** ![Zetetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/74df32/32.png) [@Zetetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zetetic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/11 "2007-02-12T22:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=Omphaloskeptic] How about [Long Titles](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1715/)? [/QUOTE] That’s the fella! Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/12 "2007-02-12T23:10:46Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/13 "2007-02-12T23:12:08Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/14 "2007-02-12T23:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=severus] 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? [/QUOTE] Install Tab Mix Plus (link above). Then you can click on the tab, and this is an option in the pop up menu. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/15 "2007-02-13T00:49:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/16 "2007-02-13T03:40:53Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Install Tab Mix Plus (link above). Then you can click on the tab, and this is an option in the pop up menu. [/QUOTE] Thanks. I’ll check this. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/17 "2007-02-13T06:26:03Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/18 "2007-02-13T14:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=severus] 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? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/19 "2007-02-13T18:01:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911/20 "2007-02-13T18:54:51Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] 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. [/QUOTE] You ARE the man! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mozilla-firefox-question/391911.md?page=2)