Firefox question

[MarlboroLite]

This might be somewhat trivial but I didn't find anything on this so I'm going to go ahead and ask away....

I'm a recent switcher to the mac and I am very used to firefox so that's what I'm using on my new macbook....in windows I used to be able to hit the scroll wheel in the mouse on a bookmark and it would open as a tab, in fact I saw this works in safari but it doesn't seem to work on firefox; if I hit the bookmark with a left, right, or scroll click it just opens the link in the same window not in a new tab! Is this a bug or is this just not possible in the mac firefox?

Also...when I had a two button mouse in my windows laptop I could hit both buttons at the same time to open a link in a new tab without having to right click and select 'open in new tab'...does anyone know any way to open a new link in a tab without having to open the context menu and hit open in new tab?

thanks

 

[angelwatt]

This might be somewhat trivial but I didn't find anything on this so I'm going to go ahead and ask away....

I'm a recent switcher to the mac and I am very used to firefox so that's what I'm using on my new macbook....in windows I used to be able to hit the scroll wheel in the mouse on a bookmark and it would open as a tab, in fact I saw this works in safari but it doesn't seem to work on firefox; if I hit the bookmark with a left, right, or scroll click it just opens the link in the same window not in a new tab! Is this a bug or is this just not possible in the mac firefox?

Also...when I had a two button mouse in my windows laptop I could hit both buttons at the same time to open a link in a new tab without having to right click and select 'open in new tab'...does anyone know any way to open a new link in a tab without having to open the context menu and hit open in new tab?

thanks

I use "Tab Mix Plus" extension, which allows you to assign a type of click to open links in new tabs. For me I set the mouse wheel click to do this. I also has settings for opening bookmarks as tabs.

Tab Mix Plus

 

[clevin]

no, this is ONE difference between mac version of firefox and others. probably due to how OSX integrates the menu of each application.

and no, I don't think safari can do this.

 

[MarlboroLite]

Safari can definitely do this! I just tried it again! If you click a bookmark with the scroll wheel it will open in a new tab!!

 

[angelwatt]

Safari can definitely do this! I just tried it again! If you click a bookmark with the scroll wheel it will open in a new tab!!

I tried it with Safari and scroll wheel-click opens bookmark in current tab, but cmd+scroll wheel click did open a new tab. There's some options in preferences that detail ways to open new tabs.

 

[ergdegdeg]

You could just press cmd while clicking for the same effect.

 

[pjrobertson]

As ergdegdeg said. CMD + click on any link / bookmark and it will open in a new tab.
If you have a USB mouse, clicking the scroll wheel should open links in a new tab, it does for me.