..Whoops; sorry for the double-post.

Isarl

Far and away the most useful and my most frequently-used shortcut in Firefox is Ctrl-Shift-T for opening the last closed tab.

Isarl

Among all of its other wonderful features, Tab Mix Plus sets a hotkey for duplicating a tab this way: Ctrl+Alt+T.

joelena

My favourite shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-T to open the last closed tab. I was amazed to discover a couple months ago in FF2, and since then it's quickly risen to my most oft-used shortcut.

Isarl

Seems to work on Linux, too.

sLydE

Works on Linux.

This is great for developing sites, and following references etc. Love it! Thanks for the great tip!

Utahcon

thats cool I'm not sure how much I will be using that feature but still.....

eluvatar

I've always hated being on like a download page and wanting to hit the back button to go to a web page like 4 pages back because then I lose the download this fixes it Thanks!

Bezike

<Opera troll>
The mouse gesture up-down-up accomplishes the same thing in Opera. CTRL+Z opens the last closed tab, or you can click the little trashcan on the side of the tab bar to select from the last several dozen you've closed in a particular session.
</Opera troll>

hicks

if you are on a mac you can just hold down cmd when clicking the back button. This opens a new tab with the same history as the one you started with.

gabrielamadeus

It works in Ubuntu as well.

Yazaq

I would always just use my middle mouse button on the back button to open the step back in another page, but I guess this allows you to to back multiple steps, not just one.

Dalhamir

@joelena: TMP FTW! The only problem with TMP right now is that there isn't a FF3-compatible version available from addons.mozilla.com - the dev version (available in the TMP forum) works great, but not everyone knows where to find it (took me a while to discover it, which kept me from using the FF3 betas and release candidates on a regular basis).

There's been a bit of whinging on the forum lately about how long it's taken the developer to make an "official" build that's FF3-compatible, hopefully we'll see it soon.

cowboy_k

This doesn't work for me if I have only one tab open. Anyone else have that problem?

greeze

@cJw: i'm in love with mouse gestures, too. it started with opera, but then i switched to firefox and found an extension for gestures. didn't take long after that to find strokeit. it lets you use mouse gestures for any program. try it out.

bigdaddyp16

The Ctrl+drag tabs is not new to FF3. Works in my 2.x.

Kajo

Wow, that article just introduced to discontinuous selection and search bar resizing. Excellent!

By the way, you can middle-click the back or forward button, and you can also open the dropdown menu next to the back/forward buttons and middle-click an item there.

Bassem B.

OK, perhaps there is an explanation, but I cannot make this work at all. My laptop is running Vista and Firefox 3. I am wondering what may be preventing this. The best I could do, was eventually a tab for "Showcase" that showed all the tabs I have open in two windows. Perhaps I need better instructions on where I am dragging this? Or is the problem that I am trying this on a laptop?

klz

Mouse gestures have changed the way I browse; why move my mouse cursor all the way up to the 'back' button when I can right click and drag to the left anywhere on the page to go 'back' a step in history? Left, then right click to move one tab to the right and vice verse... I loves me some mouse gestures!

I use Mousegestures.org and recommend you do the same.

Now, then, if I could only do the same in an Explorer window, I'd be uber happy. :>

cJw

Cool. I don't need the Duplicate Tab extension anymore. Is there a hotkey for this, or do you need to drag the tab?

Rangi42

yeah, i've got the dev build of TMP, and haven't had a problem with it. i've got it set up to do this when i double click on a tab. it duplicates it, history and all. so, instead of using this, i'd definitely recommend grabbing tab mix plus. and, again, don't worry about the dev build. it's fine.

bigdaddyp16

In Safari, just command-click the back button and it'll open the previous page in a new tab. Or command-click and hold and you'll see a list of all the previous pages which you can then open in a new tab.

PiersRippey

I like the Duplicate Tab extension. It easily allows you to duplicate any tab as will as move a tab to its own window or merge multiple Firefox windows into one.

If you haven't tried it, you should give it a try.

jstrellner

My favorite is HIGHLT+DRAG+SEARCH

I love dragging whole links up straight to Google.

ez10

Though the tab-duplication trick can be useful, if you want to back up in your history without losing the page you're on, the simplest thing to do is just hold CTRL while hitting the back button.

pale_blue_eyes

Err, maybe I'm on a different FF3 than you guys are. When I CTRL+Click or Middle Click the back button, I go one step back a new tab, sure, but it doesn't copy the history.

Arterion

I get no response with this trick. What am I doing wrong?

klz

for the list of shortcut keys I commonly use: ctr+l=url bar, ctr+k/e=search bar,ctr+tab=next tab,ctr+shif+tab=previous tab,ctr+w/f4=close tab and ctr+shift+t=undo closed tab...also when u press ctr+(0-9) it will help in navigating tabs more quickly...just hoped that it can be numbered like the Fancy Numbered Tabs so that you it will be easier to navigating tabs

pandecoco

@ people who love gestures: Set a duplicate tab gesture. It does the same thing. If you use fire gestures, it's not set by default (I don't think), but the old mouse gestures add-on for FF2 had it be down up down. So I set mine to that. I use this feature all the time!

chaoskid42

With Tab Mix Plus, you get a duplicate tab in the option menu that does the same thing.

wildness

@greeze:

Correct. Doesn't seem to work with only one tab open, but works fine as long as you have 2+. Seems like a wierd limitation, as why would you be any less likely to want to save the state of your first / only tab than the third one?

jsmorley

@Arterion: Oops! Sorry, you're right, the history does NOT get copied along with the new tab. You can, however, open any of the previous pages appearing in the drop-down list in a new tab by holding CTRL while clicking (and not just the one directly preceding the current page).

pale_blue_eyes

This does not seem to work with TMP?

One of my most used combos:
Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+L, then type site name and Ctrl+Enter
or
Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+K, then type search keywords, Alt+Down (or Up) to pick searchengine and then Enter

sharfah

Aha! Been looking for exactly this. Should have thought to try the obvious I guess.

Thanks!

Tomu

In Opera 9.5 just right click on the tab and hit duplicate. It does the same thing.

mickeric

@cowboy_k: the dev version of Tab Mix Plus is here. It is a great extension - I set it to duplicate a tab (with all its history) when I double-click on the tab in the tab bar. It can remember not only the last closed tab, but a number of them that you can set (I have 20 or so); right-click on the tab bar and you have a drop-down menu "closed tab list", with favicons and all.

tapirul

The Tab History extension enables this by default for every new tab, so that middle-clicking opens a new tab with the complete history of the originating one.

bsander

the Tab Mix Plus dev version is here. It's a great extension - I set it to duplicate a tab (with all the history) when I double-click on it in the tab bar. Has closed-tab history, you can set the number of closed tabs to remember (I have 20 or so)

tapirul

Thanks LH for this. How many more of these gems lie waiting to come out of the woodwork, I wonder?

AdvisoryCapacity

For me, this only works if I drag-and-drop the tab ahead of it's current position, not behind it. Works like that on any tab, too, not just the current one.

Deemonie

As lame as it is, Control+W = close tab plus Control+Tab=switch tabs. I open many tabs, switch between them and then close as I go. That is my favorite shortcut.

EditorinChief

Thanks for this great tip. I was just trying to figure out how to do this the other day.

The one shortcut that I use constantly is Control+Left Click to open up a link(s) in a new tab.

rainserpent

@sharfah: Rather than opening a new tab to search in (Crtl + T, Ctrl + K, search term, Enter), you can just do an Alt-Search (Ctrl + K, search term, Alt-Enter). Same effect, less presses.
@rainserpent: Middle click does the same as Ctrl + LeftClick, ie open link in new tab.

yitzle