How do you setup the tab thingy in Mozilla?

[Nocturnal]

Is Mozilla basically Netscape Navigator?

How do I setup the tabs settings? I can't figure that out, yet.

 

[Mitzi]

Theres nothing really to setup, just right click a link and say 'Open as new Tab' (or whatever the exact wording is).

Edit: Apparently clicking the middle mouse button will open the link as a new tab though I've not tried that to confirm.

 

[Nothinman]

Is Mozilla basically Netscape Navigator?

The opposite, Netscape is a rebadged Mozilla build.

Both come with very basic tab support built in, if you want you can install a tab browser extension that will give you a lot more options though.

 

[oog]

Middle mouse button opens a link in a new tab. I click my mouse wheel to open links in new tabs.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: oog
Middle mouse button opens a link in a new tab. I click my mouse wheel to open links in new tabs.

That may have to be set up in Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Tabbed Browsing (I think it defaults to some other action, or no action).

BTW, Nothinman, could you expound a bit on what advantages a plug-in would provide? I'm happy with the "basic" tabbed browsing support of Mozilla 1.4, but if there's something better, I'd like to try it.

 

[ethebubbeth]

you can also do ctrl + left click

 

[ethebubbeth]

or if you want to open in a new tab from the address bar, hit alt + enter instead of just enter

 

[Tronoman]

Multizilla from mozdev.org is a great tab plug in. The tabs are easier to use, look better, have more features, better tab menus, drag and drop tabs, allows "groupmarks" which are bookmarks using more than one tab, start page can have multiple tabs open (dont remember if this is avalible without the plugin or not), you can open and close tabs much quicker. After i install mozilla the first plugin I install is Multizilla once you use it you dont want to go back to the normal tabs.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: oog
Middle mouse button opens a link in a new tab. I click my mouse wheel to open links in new tabs.

That may have to be set up in Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Tabbed Browsing (I think it defaults to some other action, or no action).

BTW, Nothinman, could you expound a bit on what advantages a plug-in would provide? I'm happy with the "basic" tabbed browsing support of Mozilla 1.4, but if there's something better, I'd like to try it.

From the tabbrowser extensions home site:

Extra features of Tabs

* You can reorder tabs by their drag and drop. Shift+Ctrl(Command)+PageUp and Shift+Ctrl(Command)+PageDown are available to move the current tab to right/left. When you drop the tab into another window, the tab will moved to the window.
* You can undo Close Tab until fifty times ago. You can re-open the closed tab by Shift+Ctrl+Z or Alt+Z.
* You can move the tab-bar to the bottom of windows, by drag and drop. To change its position, drag the blank area of it and drop to the content area, please.
* Closebox and progress-meter are available for each tab.
* The position of created new tab is customizable: start/end pos of the tabbar or leftside/rightside of the current tab.
* The next focused tab, when a tab is closed, is customizable: Right to Left (default of Mozilla 1.0), Left to Right (Mozilla 1.1 later), or the previously made/selected tab of closed.
* You can bind favorite features to your actions: double click and middle click (or Ctrl+click) of tabs or the tab-bar.
* You can customize width of tabs, style of labels, maximum number of tabs in a window. And you can open new tabs over the limit in new windows automatically.
* Shift+Alt+Left focuses to the tab previously selected. It will assist your multiple browsing.
* When you open new tab with an URL copied in the clipboard, tabextensions loads the URL in the new tab. (You can disable this feature with its setting.)

Extra items of the menu in tabs are following:

Move to Left(Right)
Reorders tabs.
Duplicate Tab
Duplicates the tab with the history. Duplicate Tab in New Window opens the duplicated tab in new window.
Set Label
Changes the label of the tab. We can save the custom label as the name of the bookmark.
Lock Tab
In the locked tab, all links are opened in new tabs automatically. The state will be saved to the bookmark.
Block Referrer
Prevents to note information of the page, to the next.
Auto Reload
Reloads tabs with favorites interval. The state will be saved to the bookmark.
Permissions
Set plug-ins, JavaScript, and so on, to allowed or forbidden. States will be saved to the bookmark.
Close Left(Right) Tabs
Closes left or right tabs from the current tab.
Close All Tabs
Closes all tabs with one action. The behavior of last tab closing is controled by another setting.
Close Other Tabs
Reproduces the same feature removed from the Mozilla 1.3b and Mozilla Firebird.

Extra features of Browser

* The Single Window Mode, which prevents to open other browser windows, is available. In this mode, any windows are opened in the window as tabs.
* You can save the current tabset (set of tabs) and load it with ease. Operations are called from the new submenu Load Tab Sets in Go menu. And, keyboard shortcuts are available: Shift+Ctrl+T to save the current tabset, Alt+L to show Load Tab Sets menu directly.
* You can reopen all of closed tabs with ease. Operations are called from the new submenu Recent Closed Tabs in Go menu. And, a keyboard shortcut is available: Alt+R to show Recent Closed Tabs menu directly.
* You can open last visited tabs insetad of last visited page when Navigator starts up. And, this can restore tabs at the next startup of crash.
* You can open tabs instead of windows opened by links or JavaScript.
* You can set to the location bar, bookmarks, links and external applications to open tabs instead of windows automatically. And, you can open any link to other site in new tab.
* Browser can open new tab with a copied URL (in the clipboard) automatically.

Extra features of Bookmarks and Histories

* You can open bookmarks and histories in tabs by middle-click or Ctrl(Command)+click of bookmarks.
* Middle-click or Ctrl(Command)+ クclick of bookmark folders like bookmark-groups. In the Tab Group Mode, you are also able to open bookmark groups as tab groups.
* You can customize the behavior when you open bookmark-groups.

Tab Group Mode

You can group several tabs, in the Tab Group Mode.

New tabs opened by link-click or JavaScript are grouped with the original tab automatically. Labels of tab groups are colored automatically, so you can browser several websites parallelly with ease.

Hope this helps.

Edit: Note that the extension slows down the browser a tiny bit, but I like it enough that I use it anyway.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Tronoman
Multizilla from mozdev.org is a great tab plug in. The tabs are easier to use, look better, have more features, better tab menus, drag and drop tabs, allows "groupmarks" which are bookmarks using more than one tab, start page can have multiple tabs open (dont remember if this is avalible without the plugin or not), you can open and close tabs much quicker. After i install mozilla the first plugin I install is Multizilla once you use it you dont want to go back to the normal tabs.

Thanks for the suggestion. I came, I installed, I like.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Tronoman
Multizilla from mozdev.org is a great tab plug in. The tabs are easier to use, look better, have more features, better tab menus, drag and drop tabs, allows "groupmarks" which are bookmarks using more than one tab, start page can have multiple tabs open (dont remember if this is avalible without the plugin or not), you can open and close tabs much quicker. After i install mozilla the first plugin I install is Multizilla once you use it you dont want to go back to the normal tabs.

I hate multizilla... it makes the menus HUGE with so many options.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: ClueLis
Edit: Note that the extension slows down the browser a tiny bit, but I like it enough that I use it anyway.

WOAH!! I have been having really really horribly annoying speed problems in firebird for a while now. Every so often I just kill it and start another, and it's faster again. It's never really "fast" though, like people say it is. Well, I saw your comment and uninstalled the tabbrowser extension (which I barely use) and it is WAAAAY faster. I am amazed. Hopefully it doesn't slow down over time like it was before, because it's a ton faster now.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: ClueLis
Edit: Note that the extension slows down the browser a tiny bit, but I like it enough that I use it anyway.

WOAH!! I have been having really really horribly annoying speed problems in firebird for a while now. Every so often I just kill it and start another, and it's faster again. It's never really "fast" though, like people say it is. Well, I saw your comment and uninstalled the tabbrowser extension (which I barely use) and it is WAAAAY faster. I am amazed. Hopefully it doesn't slow down over time like it was before, because it's a ton faster now.

The reasone it slows down a lot over time is that, by default, it keeps traks of your last 50 tabs in the memory. I believe, though, that there is a way of disabling this.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: ClueLis
Edit: Note that the extension slows down the browser a tiny bit, but I like it enough that I use it anyway.

WOAH!! I have been having really really horribly annoying speed problems in firebird for a while now. Every so often I just kill it and start another, and it's faster again. It's never really "fast" though, like people say it is. Well, I saw your comment and uninstalled the tabbrowser extension (which I barely use) and it is WAAAAY faster. I am amazed. Hopefully it doesn't slow down over time like it was before, because it's a ton faster now.

The reasone it slows down a lot over time is that, by default, it keeps traks of your last 50 tabs in the memory. I believe, though, that there is a way of disabling this.

File a bugzilla bug if you can reproduce it.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: ClueLis
Edit: Note that the extension slows down the browser a tiny bit, but I like it enough that I use it anyway.

WOAH!! I have been having really really horribly annoying speed problems in firebird for a while now. Every so often I just kill it and start another, and it's faster again. It's never really "fast" though, like people say it is. Well, I saw your comment and uninstalled the tabbrowser extension (which I barely use) and it is WAAAAY faster. I am amazed. Hopefully it doesn't slow down over time like it was before, because it's a ton faster now.

The reasone it slows down a lot over time is that, by default, it keeps traks of your last 50 tabs in the memory. I believe, though, that there is a way of disabling this.

File a bugzilla bug if you can reproduce it.

It's not really a bug, as the Extension is designed to do that.