Add Tab Clicking Options

Comments (1) · August 18, 2008 at 6:33 am · Tabbed Browsing

Need a few more options for your Firefox tabs?  Twanno’s Tab Clicking Options extension for Firefox should do the trick.  With the Tab Clicking Options extension it is possible to set various actions to different clicking events on the tab bar or a tab in the Firefox browser.

The events you can assign an action to are:

• Double clicking
• Clicking with middle mouse button
• Left clicking with control-key (or meta-key on Mac) pressed
• Left clicking with alt-key pressed
• Left clicking with shift-key pressed

And the actions which you can choose from are:

• Open a new tab
• Reload the tab
• Reload all tabs
• Close tab
• Close other tabs
• Close all tabs
• Duplicate Tab
• Duplicate Tab in New Window
• Undo Close Tab (only in Firefox 2.0 beta or with extensions)
• Bookmark Tab
• Bookmark All Tabs (not in Firefox 1.0)
• No Action

This is no doubt that Tab Clicking Options makes it easier to work with your tabs in a number of different ways.  Also, because I know somebody will bring it up - Tab Mix Plus will also do a lot of these same things too. So if you want an alternative - there you go.  (via Download Squad)

Bonus:  Via Twanno’s Firefox extensions page you can also pick up his Duplicate Tab add-on for the browser.  It allows you to clone a tab along with its history.

Problem Solver: Opening Plain Text Links

Comments (1) · December 26, 2007 at 6:27 am · Firefox Usability

Your problem? Making none clickable links clickable again!

The solution? The Plain Text Links extension for Firefox solves a problem that many of us run into. With any text that can be treated as a URL, while using this extension you can right click on the text and select “Open this URL”.

This one simple tool will make Firefox smart enough to know what to do with that link when you want to click on it. Now if it doesn’t do what you need it to do - I have an alternative.

Another Fix! Plain Text to Link is a totally different extension, no matter how similar you think the name is. This handy helper is able to select plain text in a page and save it in a text file. It can also open links written in plain text.

Here are a few more suggestions that do pretty much the same job:

• Linkification
• text/plain

Hey Mitch, what about a non-extension fix? For that, give Linkrr a whirl.

Snap Links Provides Better Mass Link Clicking

Comments (1) · September 9, 2007 at 2:32 pm · Firefox Usability

What in the heck is “mass link clicking”?

You click a link, you open a link - it is all pretty straight forward. What if for example you are browsing through search results and you want to open the top three links? You have to go to each one click, have it open in a new tab, repeat…repeat..

There is an extension to save your finger from those extra clicks and I do have to admit it is pretty fun to use. Snap Links allows you to draw a rectangle over a series of links and automatically open them all up. Think of it as you would selecting multiple files on your desktop.

Here are a few more details about the Snap Links extension:

• The user selects the links by drawing a rectangle
• Only the main links are selected by default
• Requires only one click
• There is visual aid to show which links are currently selected
• The extension attempts to be simple, fast and intuitive

Snap Links allows users to select the default action on the options window (open links in new tabs, in new windows, in new tabs on a new window, bookmark, download or copy links to clipboard). Overall I think that Snap Links is a very unique extension that is sure to get a lot of attention (and hopefully even a lot better too) over time.

Linkification

Comments (2) · January 5, 2007 at 6:00 am · Firefox Usability

Want to convert text links into real links?

To view and set options, you can (1) use the Linkification right-click context menu, (2) right-click the status bar icon and click “Options”, or (3) click Tools->Extensions, and double-click the Linkification item.

If you find yourself looking at a lot of links typed out that are not clickable - this is the extension for you. It makes browsing though these Web pages a heck of a lot easier.

+ Download and Install the Linkification Extension for Firefox!