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  * addition of duplicate tab option

Why can't Firefox and Chrome add this functionality?

How it should work: In IE11 it's Ctrl+K and it opens a new tab (a deep-copy of the current one, incl history so one click on the back button in the new cloned tab.

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Duplicate tab option is present here in Firefox 57. It's in the right click context menu on any tab.

Is it too much to ask for a simple shortcut, like Ctrl+K

Ctrl+T ... new Tab

Ctrl+K ... dublicate Tab

Ctrl+W ... close Tab

I won't start clicking around on the tabs. Please add the missing shortcut (Ctrl+K)

can you file a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org? It should be easy to do!

source: I added the duplicate tab context menu option in Fx57

Ctrl+K is already search in both Firefox and Chrome.

Chrome has had this functionality for a very long time. Right click on a tab => duplicate.

Clicking in the URL bar (or Ctrl-L) then pressing Ctrl+Enter also works. Ctrl-Clicking the back and forward buttons also opens items in new tabs. s/Ctrl/Command/g for macOS.

A lot of Developers are great at applying modifier key behaviours consistently with the button and key combinations you can think of, especially with Shift and Ctrl/Command :)

As others already mentioned, Firefox has this exact functionality available in the context menu (4th from the top) but also when you middle-click on the reload button.

In addition to the middle-click refresh and context menu entry that others have mentioned: you can hold down Ctrl and drag the new duplicate tab anywhere.

Browsing this on FF58, and at least here I do have a duplicate tab option.

It even duplicated my "add comment" tab with the text in the textbox retained.

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