Firefox 5 opened with my g-mail account open in a mini-tab on the left and my Google home page - F6 doesn't, I just get the home page, can I set this up?

Question

No more details needed - there was a good feature added to F5 which I can't find in F6; if it's still available, how do I set it up? Thanks.

Answer 1

When I open a link from a search it does open in a new tab ''(it is new, but it is at least in Firefox 4+)''<br>
'''browser.search.openintab''' user set '''true'''
'''More information on configuration variables''' available in
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config entries] and for users not familiar with the process there is [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config] (How to change).
You will find interesting reading on tabs in
* '''Tabbed Browsing''' in Firefox<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tabs.htm
* '''Tabs configuration''', extracted from About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tabs_config.htm
* 001 '''Tab Capacity Test'''<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/tab_capacity/001_with_underscore.htm##
* '''Tab Color Underscoring active/read/unread''' (Fx3.6) - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org<br>actually colors all borders not just an underline-- see picture in Tabs Bar Minimal Size<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/24728
* '''Tabs, Enlarge list-all-tabs button''' - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/18553
* '''Tabs Bar Minimal Size''' - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org<br>http://userstyles.org/styles/9043
From a Google search you should have the pages open in another tab, but with Google that is not quite good enough because they have them open all in the same new tab ''as you noticed so you've done that''.
* Search and Substitution Shortcuts especially for Firefox users<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/search.htm
You can use '''Ctrl+click''' or '''Ctrl+Shift+click''' to open a link in a new tab.
* Firefox and other Browser Keyboard Shortcuts (Comparison Table)<br>http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/keyboard.htm
You can use '''app-tab''' to pin the tab, right-click on the tab and choose pin-tab and the opposite to unpin tab, or delete the tab when done.