How do Firefox tabs work ?

I thought Firefox enabled you to have multiple tabs at the top of your window. So if I'm at Wilders, then Wilders will be my first tab. And if I click on a link on someone's posting and am taken to the DiamondCS website, for example, then DCS will be my second tab at the top of my window.

Am I totally mistaken? I spent about half an hour last night playing with different combinations in Tools / Options / Tabbed Browsing, but clicking on any links to totally different websites still opens up a new window, just like in MS Internet Explorer. The only difference is I have one tab displayed in every window using Firefox.

After changing tab settings, so you have to exit, then relaunch, Firefox in order for the setting to take effect.

I'd certainly appreciate your help.

Regards,
Stro

 

You have to right-click on the link.

 

Try the Tabbrowser Preferences extension. It allows you to adjust your tab settings. I set mine to open new links with the middle click (scroll wheel) button.

 

Close_Hauled is right, right-click on the link and you'll get a choice of "Open in new window" or "Open in new tab" (among other things, of course).

That's once nice goodie about Firefox, much handier than IE which needs you to keep the keyboard handy to force opening a new window.

(Sorry, C_H, typed name as C-H the first time)

 

Many thanks for leading me by the hand on this one. You are all familiar to me.

Ailric, I appreciated the link to the 46 best free software products you posted on the "best free zip software" thread. I've already downloaded ATNotes.

Regards,
Stro

 

Glad to help!

 

Stro,
I sure am glad that you asked that question. I have worked with FF trying to see how to do that type of tabbed browsing. I finally gave up and made NS 8.0 my default browser for the tabbed browsing feature.

NS is a little easier since you just click on the link and it auromatically does it, but FF is not that much trouble.

Thanks to all for the question and the answers.

FWIW I like NS 8.0 as well as FF. It is a few seconds slower loading initially, but after that it is reasonable fast. I am on DSL.
Jerry

 

The other thing, if you want a set of standard sites to be opened in a tabbed view on FF launch, simply separate the url's with the pipe delimiter, as in

Code:

http://www.comcast.net/|http://www.cnn.com/|http://news.google.com/|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/]

and paste the line of url's into the box for the home page. My standard launch yield tabs for 12 different sites right now.

Blue