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Fwiw Firefox's "duplicate tab" feature similarly clones history. It only exists for tabs though, not entire windows. Right-click the tab, it's in the context menu.

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To be fair, on IE it doesn't clone the entire window, just the current tab into a new window. Still, that's my main use case, and AFAICT it's not possible in Firefox by keyboard or even with a single mouse action.

There's multiple extensions that claim to provide a shortcut to the duplicate tab option, fwiw

Thanks. Now that I looked into it again, the issue I have is not just the Duplicate Tab feature, but that opening a link in a new tab or window clears the history of that new tab/window instead of cloning the history of the source tab. that means that you can't quickly open a couple of links into new tabs/windows, with each of them preserving the current history. I don't think there's a fix for that.

Ah yes, I remember loving that feature in Netscape at the tail end, when it was just an altered clone of Firefox.

I got used to losing it eventually after switching over, but I do remember it being a painful transition for me too.

There's a mouse shortcut for Duplicate Tab in Firefox: middle-click the Reload button! It blew my mind when I read about it in some random thread a couple of years ago.

I've been using it since more or less the start and didn't know that. Thanks!

Same for Chrome. This is amazing.

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