Duplicate Firefox Tabs [Round Up]

Previously, I mentioned about a neat Firefox trick that allows you to duplicate the tab on the fly by just dragging it to a new space. Anyway here what I failed to figure out, and thought would be cool to have:

Support Mac’s Firefox
Keyboard shortcut instead of mouse dragging

Thanks for readers tip-in, there’s work around for both now.

Firefox in Windows

[Mouse] – Hold Control, drag tab to new space.

[Keyboard shortcut] – Click URL (highlight), Alt + Enter

Firefox in Mac

[Mouse] – Hold Command, drag tab to new space.

[Keyboard shortcut] – Click URL (highlight), Option + Enter

Thanks Wendy, Jeniffer

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United Voices July 30th, 2008

This was what I was searching for too. Thanks for the shortcut keys.
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dev July 30th, 2008

thank for this web trick
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X-OR July 30th, 2008

[Keyboard shortcut] – Click URL (highlight), Alt + Enter

you can do this only with keyboard using F6 instead of click url
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Philip Espersen July 31st, 2008

[Mouse] – Hold Command, drag tab to new space.

Can’t get this to work. I’m using Mac OS X Tiger and FF3. When i hold Command and the tab. It just moves the tab, some blue indikator appears. And actually does the same if i hold Command or not.

The keyboard tip work great though :)
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Xavier July 31st, 2008

Thanks for the beautiful web trick, HongKiat!

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Yong How July 31st, 2008

great tricks, never think of that.
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Rahul Narula July 31st, 2008

Though the duplicate tabbing works fine with the keyboard shortcut (Alt +Enter) but the tab history is not duplicated. Its only the current url that gets duplicated.
Whereas using the mouse dragging duplicates the history of the tab as well.
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okra17 July 31st, 2008

wow!!! nice! thanks!
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Sangesh July 31st, 2008

I’m more of a keyboard guy, so that’s for this mate. cheers.
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Angga Rifandi August 11th, 2008

nice tutorial. but now mozilla addons support duplicate tab IMHO, but I forgot addons name.
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lgman August 12th, 2008

Hi,
I read you article/request for “Keyboard shortcut instead of mouse dragging”. Here’s what I’ve found after my first try:

Hold ‘Ctrl’+'Shift’ and then press ‘t’. This will duplicate a tab with it’s URL. BUT :-( It always opens the URL of the first tab.

Enjoy…

lgman
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lgman August 12th, 2008

Uh. Biiiiig mistake: Actually it’s the last-closed-tab that is opened with that short-cut. Sorry ;-)

lgman
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