I recently stumbled upon the Firefox add-on InstaClick which maps the "middle-click on links" functionality of the browser to the right-click button instead. That way it is possible to open links in new tabs with a right-click, which is handy for users who work with laptop touchpads for instance or two button mice.
Mapping that functionality to the right-click button comes at the expense of the context menu which can then only be opened by holding down Shift, Ctrl or Command.
The add-on speeds up the opening of links in new tabs by eliminating the need to hold down the Ctrl key to do so if no middle mouse button is available.
I would like to use this article as a guide to list all the options that Firefox users have to open links in new tabs and windows, beginning with basic mouse operations and ending with add-ons that add new options or change existing ones.
As you can see from the list, there are lots of options to work with links in Firefox. How do you open links in Firefox?
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As an alternative to Linkification/Text Link I use Linkify Plus (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1352), a lightweight userscript for greasemoneky. In my experience Linkification seemed to make the page loading a bit slower. Linkify Plus does’t have such effect.
Thanks for the PlayLink add-on by the way. I was looking for something like that.
Thanks for this useful, concise post!
The “QuickDrag” Firefox extension at Mozilla:
http://goo.gl/fkE0z,
is really great.
(it supercedes the old “Super DragAndGo” FF ext!).