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Holy cow -- middle clicking opens in a new tab?! I love you.

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My first thought on reading that was, "some people don't know that?!"

My immediate next thought was, "I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours."

Is there a wiki for this sort of thing? There needs to be one.

apple-shift-t reopens closed tabs in firefox

Ctrl-Shift-T on Windows: works in Firefox, Opera and Chrome.

Also middle click closes tab.

It's the same for Linux, too.

You are my hero.

I presume that's built in? I've been using TMP to get the same functionality, but it uses F12 which gets swallowed by firebug if you have that enabled.

Yeah I used to use F12 with Tab Mix Plus until it was swallowed by Firebug, and that's when I discovered Ctrl-Shift-T, which is arguably easier to hit than F12 as well.

heh. Funny thing is that I post or tweet this about once a week. It's my pet project to tell more people about this.

how do you get firebug to work with F12 on Mac!?

It's hard to look for things that solve problems you don't know you have.

Now there's an opportunity for a startup search engine.

Ctrl-CMD-D over any word in OS X gives you a definition. Keep holding Ctrl-CMD and move around...

The problem with an obvious things you don't know wiki is that everyone doesn't know something different that's obvious. Putting all those things in one easy to find place makes them hard to find. And if you didn't know what you were looking for in the first place...

A wiki with "middle click opens in new tabs" would be noise for me. Nice thought though.

"I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours."

I recently learned about open in OS X:

  $ open filename

This opens filename using whatever the default application is for the file's type.

CTRL-click does the same.

I think this is default behavior (thought I vaguely remember configuring it) -- on a computer without a mouse you can simultaneous left and right to open a new tab.

On Linux, left+right click emulate a middle click, at least if you only have two buttons.

This just saved me countless minutes. Great.

yea.. that just transformed my browsing ability, though probably not for the better :)

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