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I'm surprised people are surprised by this feature, it's been around for ages. Other sometimes useful features are 'duplicate tab', 'close all other tabs', 'close tabs to right', etc.

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Some more tips:

- middle-clicking on the refresh button duplicates the

- middle-clicking on a tab closes it

- middle-clicking on the empty space after all your tabs opens a new one

Generally, try middle-clicking on things to see what happens. It’s often useful.

Interesting, I had never tried middle clicking the refresh button

Ctrl-click works as well (just like ctrl-click works to open tabs in new windows. This is useful for laptops where the middle button can be harder to use/access.

It also works for history items, and I think other things as well. Basically if it could be opened in a new tab, then try middle/ctrl clicking it.

Also I use the extension called Shortkeys in Firefox to add a custom shortcuts for Close Other Tabs (alt+o), Close Tabs to the Right (alt+r), and Close Tabs to the Left (alt+l). It really helps me manage browser tabs and prevents me from "tab-hoarding"!!.

I'm not surprised. It is not readily discoverable for certain UX reasons that I hypothesize in this neighboring comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594816

I did not discover it for many years.

Fair, but for me I remember it being intuitive as it was the first thing that came to mind when wanting to combine two windows into one by dragging the tabs in a convenient manner, or to conveniently rearrange groups of tabs

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