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Firefox 3 - opening closed tabs with middle click on tab bar? how?

DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Is there something built into FF3 that allows me to do it, or do I still need an extension? I think Tab Mix Plus did it for me on FF2.X

I know about the history drop down menu and the recently closed tabs, but I want to be able to middle click the tab bar and call up the last closed tabs in the reverse order they were closed.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It should be there by default. I'm having difficulties doing it in OSX, but it works fine for me in Windows. You just have to make sure that you click on empty space in the tab bar, something that gets more difficult the more tabs are open.

    Also, Ctrl+Shift+T (or Cmd+Shift+T) is your friend - does exactly what you're after, except without needing to move one's hand those awful three inches off the keyboard to reach the mouse.

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    but my hands are already on the mouse. I dont want to move them to the keyboard :P

    and no, it's not working for me. middle clicking on tabs does close them, and middle clicking links opens the link in a new tab, for the record.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Can you open a new window with three tabs? Load stuff in all three, close one and then middle-click on the empty space in the tab bar to bring back the third. It should work.

    And wait... your hands are already on the mouse? How big is that thing?

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    yeah, doesnt work .... hmmpf

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Strange. I suppose Tab Mix Plus would have this ability. Otherwise, there's this - it puts a button in either the toolbar or tabbar to reopen closed tabs. Not exactly an elegant solution, but it's all I know of, I'm afraid.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Oh whoa, I didn't know middle clicking did that! I'm on OS X right now, and it isn't working for me (if it is indeed supposed to...)

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  • steeefsteeef Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I like Tab Clicking Options. I've assigned CTRL-click on the tab bar to undo close tab, double click on the tab bar to create a new tab, and double-click on an existing tab to duplicate it. Very handy.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    contraband wrote: »
    Oh whoa, I didn't know middle clicking did that! I'm on OS X right now, and it isn't working for me (if it is indeed supposed to...)
    Maybe it's yet another in the long list of features that exist on other platform Firefoxes, but not on the OSX one.

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Cyvros wrote: »
    contraband wrote: »
    Oh whoa, I didn't know middle clicking did that! I'm on OS X right now, and it isn't working for me (if it is indeed supposed to...)
    Maybe it's yet another in the long list of features that exist on other platform Firefoxes, but not on the OSX one.

    I'm on my Windows partition now, and it's not working either... Maybe something with my hardware?

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm just using the bog-standard Firefox 3 in Windows at the moment and it's working fine. Only two things I can think of that could be making this happen are Session Manager and Tabs Open Relative. I'm fairly sure it isn't the latter, so it might be something from Session Manager, then.

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  • DigDug2000DigDug2000 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    contraband wrote: »
    Cyvros wrote: »
    contraband wrote: »
    Oh whoa, I didn't know middle clicking did that! I'm on OS X right now, and it isn't working for me (if it is indeed supposed to...)
    Maybe it's yet another in the long list of features that exist on other platform Firefoxes, but not on the OSX one.

    I'm on my Windows partition now, and it's not working either... Maybe something with my hardware?
    Its not a feature of FF that I know of. There's even a bug filed about implementing it.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DigDug2000 wrote: »
    Its not a feature of FF that I know of. There's even a bug filed about implementing it.
    Ah, my mistake. Sorry about that.

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