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disable firefox's control+w
How can firefox's keyboard shortcut control+W, which closes a tab, be disabled? There's nothing in about:config under browser.tabs.
(When in a web session that is a virtual host's console, that's the ...
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Firefox tab shifting like in Opera
In Opera there is a nice feature that keeps me hooked:
Shift+Tab will move to the last opened tab. Pressing Shift+Tab then subsequent tabs (Shift+Tab then Tab again) breaks out of the last used tab ...
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Firefox Quantum - select multiple tabs?
Is there still no way to select multiple tabs in firefox fox quantum? How about merging two windows into one (this is my reason for selecting tabs)?
There used to be, years ago, some plugins and add-...
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How do I change modifier for Tab selection with numbers in firefox?
On Windows my Firefox switches to the first tab when I press Ctrl+1, to the second when I press Ctrl+2, etc.
On Linux (for all distributions and firefox versions that I have tried) this is achieved by ...
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How to toggle between the most recent active tabs in Firefox via Keyboard shortcut?
How to toggle between (two) most recent tabs in Firefox via keyboard shortcut without using any mice for this simple task?
Situation: in Firefox 50 I have say twenty seven tabs open conserning my ...
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Opening Firefox searches in a tab and backgrounding the new tab
In Chrome, when typing a search into the Omnibar, I can user Cmd+Enter to open the webpage or search query in a new tab, with the tab immediately being backgrounded -- this way, my focus stays on the ...
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What is the Firefox keyboard shortcut to open plain text url in new tab?
There are still webpages which contain full urls as plain text but without the link functionality.
What I mean: www.google.com
What I don't mean: www.google.com
Is there a keyboard shortcut in ...
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Why does CTRL-click not open some links in a new tab?
Sometimes while browsing, I'll ctrl-click a link to open it in a new tab. However, instead of opening in a new tab, it gets clicked and browsed to in the current tab as if I had clicked it normally ...
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How to get back to the previous tab I was working on, after closing the latest
My tabs:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Scenario
If you're a Firefox user you know that
if you have 10 tabs open and say you're in the tab #5. If you open a new tab which will ...
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how to switch tabs back by keyboard in latest firefox (27)?
I wonder is it a bug or a 'feature' that standard Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts to move between tabs in backwards are disabled.
In about:config I have set: browser.ctrlTab.previews;true, but it doesn't ...
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How to stop websites from disabling firefox keyboard shortcuts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to forbid keyboard shortcut stealing by websites in Firefox
How to stop websites from disabling firefox keyboard shortcuts?
i notice my most used sites such as ecwid.com, ...
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Is there a hot key that will allow me to move to an adjacent tab in internet browsers?
I'm currently using IE, but I have Chrome and Firefox as well. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot, especially when switching inbetween windows. I was wondering if it was possible for any of those browsers ...
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Reorder/rearrange tabs using keyboard shortcut
In Firefox, it's possible to rearrange tabs (reordering, moving to a new window, etc.) by drag-and-drop. But drag-and-drop is slow and unwieldy, and is difficult for some people to use.
In Chromium/...
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How can I restore the automatic location bar focus with Firefox 13?
Safari does it, Chrome does it, and Firefox did it up to version 12: put the focus automatically to the location bar (a.k.a. address bar) when opening a new tab.
With FF13 this behaviour changed, ...
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Does Firefox 4 have keyboard shortcuts for the "Group your tabs" and "List all tabs" buttons?
Firefox 4 has two features for visualizing tabs: the little button at the right end of the tab bar with the tooltip "List all tabs", and the "Group your tabs" button, which brings up the panorama ...
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