Firefox extension

[Lonyo]

I have mouse gestures installed, but I don't see this option.

Is there any way to highlight text (such as an unlinked URL) and then do something (press some keys etc) and get the highlighted text to be opened in a new tab.
EG: text is www.hello.com
I want to select it, then have it open in a new tab.
Maybe there's an extension that allows you to select text, right click, and then open in a new tab?
There's a right click menu option to search for selected text, but not have it "as is" and open as a URL.

 

[drag]

In linux you have middle click paste. A lot of people don't like it because then you have 2 ways of copying and pasting. (the windows style of ctrl-c and ctrl-v).

Basicly you just highlight the text, and then just doing that puts it in a buffer then you middle click on were you want it pasted and thats it.

So what you do is highlight, hit ctrl-t, then middle click the blank page and that will open it into the URL.

With windows style copy and paste it's just a bit more complex. You notice that when you hit ctrl-t to open up a blank tab the cursor goes up to the url bar automaticly? (at least it does it in the Linux version)

So then you go:
highlight text, ctrl-c
ctrl-t
ctrl-v
then hit enter.

And that will do what you want quickly.

Otherwise check out some of the tab browser extensions. I don't know if any do what you want exactly, but it's certainly possible that you do that. Notice that if you hit ctrl-l it will very quickly go up to the url bar and highlight it, all the extension would have to do is go is "paste location in new tab", which doesn't seem a big leap in programming. It's almost already setup like that.

 

[Lonyo]

I found one called "Drag to tab", you drag the text to the new tab or new window buttons, and it opens it in the corresponding thing (eg: tab or window).

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
I found one called "Drag to tab", you drag the text to the new tab or new window buttons, and it opens it in the corresponding thing (eg: tab or window).

If you just drag the text to an empty area on the tab bar, it will be opened in a new tab.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: Lonyo
I found one called "Drag to tab", you drag the text to the new tab or new window buttons, and it opens it in the corresponding thing (eg: tab or window).

If you just drag the text to an empty area on the tab bar, it will be opened in a new tab.

Wow, that works!

I find new things i love about Firefox every day

 

[jgbishop]

You should try Linkification. It allows you to double click unlinked URLs, opening them in a new tab (or optionally a new window, I think). It works great, with all kinds of URLs (query strings and all). The website I linked to above has a listing of test links you can try it on. The list is quite impressive.

Highly recommended!

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: jgbishop
You should try Linkification. It allows you to double click unlinked URLs, opening them in a new tab (or optionally a new window, I think). It works great, with all kinds of URLs (query strings and all). The website I linked to above has a listing of test links you can try it on. The list is quite impressive.

Highly recommended!

I tried that extension and liked it. The only problem was that it takes a very long time to run on large pages and I would constantly get a pop-up telling me that a script was taking too long to run on that page and that it was being terminated. I have since ditched it.

 

[AmigaMan]

try plain text links. I can select a piece of text on a page, right click, and say open selected url in new tab or open selected url (which I assume opens in the same window).

 

[jgbishop]

Originally posted by: kamper

I tried that extension and liked it. The only problem was that it takes a very long time to run on large pages and I would constantly get a pop-up telling me that a script was taking too long to run on that page and that it was being terminated. I have since ditched it.

I turned off the "Auto Linkification" option due to that very reason (parsing the page was kind of slow). Now, all I have to do is double click the link to open. So, in other words, the links don't get converted to actual hyperlinks - they still remain text. But I can open them simply by double clicking said text.

The options in Linkification are fairly numerous, and allow for some cool customizing.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: jgbishop

Originally posted by: kamper

I tried that extension and liked it. The only problem was that it takes a very long time to run on large pages and I would constantly get a pop-up telling me that a script was taking too long to run on that page and that it was being terminated. I have since ditched it.

I turned off the "Auto Linkification" option due to that very reason (parsing the page was kind of slow). Now, all I have to do is double click the link to open. So, in other words, the links don't get converted to actual hyperlinks - they still remain text. But I can open them simply by double clicking said text.

The options in Linkification are fairly numerous, and allow for some cool customizing.

Good point. I just realized that I was totally talking about the wrong thing