Right click link "Open in new Tab" now top option
John Bird
I guess someone finally realised that the most common thing is to open a
link in a new Tab. How often do users open a new Window? Almost never I
bet.
Thanks for making finally the most common action the closest and easiest
option to choose, have been asking for that for some years. In the past
the response was "There is an extension to re-arrange menus"
This was my main remaining irritation. one I hit a lot as opening a link in
a new Tab is probably the single thing I do most in Firefox - reason: I can
continue to read the page I am on while the link loads in the next tab.
Very efficient. If I have two hands I do a CTRL+Click, if only one hand is
free I do a right click, and now its easier. Now I can open even more tabs
easily (I have 213 at the moment).
John Bird
Ron Hunter
Seriously, I have never had more that 10 tabs open at once. I also
rarely have more than one window open, but often read messages from
users who have multiple windows, with 30 or more tabs open in each.
Everyone has his own needs, and uses the software in his own way.
That's why I find this idea of one way to arrange menus to be
'efficient' is a hopeless idea, doomed to failure.
Robert Kaiser
> I guess someone finally realised that the most common thing is to open a
> link in a new Tab. How often do users open a new Window? Almost never I
> bet.
Depends on which users you ask. Some do 200 tabs in a a single window,
other group tabs into windows by topic, and there may even be some who
still think that tabs ought to never have been invented and do all in
windows (I basically still agree with them but know that badly designed
window management needs them and have since migrated to grouping tabs
into windows myself).
Robert Kaiser
Soufian Jaouani
I read about TabCandy today. It seems the "Open in New Window" can be
used to start new groups.
And it would be used more often than the case is today.
Alex Faaborg
> I read about TabCandy today. It seems the "Open in New Window" can be
> used to start new groups.
> And it would be used more often than the case is today.
>
Yep, the plan is to allow any window to display any tab set. So if you
accidentally close a window, in addition to using "recently closed windows"
you could just open a new window, and use tab candy to give it the correct
tab set again.
-Alex
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John Bird
except that I probably have more tabs open.
Why so many?
1 - Someone should be testing FF with lots of tabs
2 - I use them a lot like temporary bookmarks - don't want to store them
permanently, leave them open a few days so I can find them again. Clean up
old tabs as I go as well. I don't use history for this, as I tend to delete
entire history quite often.
3 - Firefox with Bartab works efficiently with lots of tabs. (around 200MB
memory, well under 5%CPU).
Ron Hunter
> I am betting my use of Firefox is a fairly typical one for power users,
> except that I probably have more tabs open.
>
> Why so many?
>
> 1 - Someone should be testing FF with lots of tabs
If that is your purpose, great. But I still am able to read only one
thing at a time, so 200 tabs would be a waste for me.
> 2 - I use them a lot like temporary bookmarks - don't want to store them
> permanently, leave them open a few days so I can find them again.
> Clean up old tabs as I go as well. I don't use history for this, as I
> tend to delete entire history quite often.
A few days? For me, a long session on FF is 2 hours. But thanks for
doing it this way as that is sure to turn up a memory leak for the rest
of us.
> 3 - Firefox with Bartab works efficiently with lots of tabs. (around
> 200MB memory, well under 5%CPU).
>
> John Bird
>
Everyone has his own needs, and uses FF differently.