Chrome: When you right click on a link in Chrome and open it in a new tab, it opens it up in the background. Tabs to the Front switches this behaviour to automatically focus on your newly opened tab.
Your middle-click mouse button — also known as your scroll wheel — can be an effective tab management tool in both Chrome and Firefox. Here are two shortcuts it can perform.
Sometimes you’re browsing along the web and you want to open a page but not bother to look at it right this second. You could right-click the link and choose “Open Link in New Tab”, but this little keyboard shortcut can save you the trouble.
When you enter a website into the omnibar in Chrome, you don’t necessarily want it to open in the same tab or window. Fortunately there are a bunch of shortcuts to let you control exactly how Chrome handles your new destination.