Comments on: Another call to “fix” “Open in Tabs” in Firefox

By: Jay Valatka

Jay Valatka — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:06:29 +0000

For Firefox 2.0, add this to the userChrome.css file in your profile directory:

menuitem[label="Open All in Tabs"] { display: none !important; }
You may have to create the userChrome.css file by making a copy of the provided example file and editing that.

By: protocol7 » Blog Archive » del.icio.us "Open in tabs" issue

protocol7 » Blog Archive » del.icio.us "Open in tabs" issue — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:23:17 +0000

[...] The del.icio.us developers take bug reports and feedback on a Yahoo Group so I posted my problem there. And, a few days later I got this reply saying that this actually happens due to a change in a Firefox update. Workaround provided and tested to work as expected. While I certainly don’t agree with the default behavior, it’s at least nice that you can change it. [...]

By: Darius

Darius — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:41:52 +0000

you can go to about:config and set the browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace preference to false

thanks for this. I went searching for bug reports about the destructive behavior after it recently happened to me, and I agree, the default behavior should be changed, but for now your solution is great.

By: Peter Buck

Peter Buck — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:05:54 +0000

In case anyone’s still listening to this old thread, I vote that “Open in Tabs” opens tabs in included folders as well. This is probably the wrong place to reuest features–plz tell me at pbuck at his.com where to send my request. Thx – Peter

By: SanBaldo » Blog Archive » Open in tabs (firefox)

SanBaldo » Blog Archive » Open in tabs (firefox) — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:03:39 +0000

[...] If you ever tryed to use the “open in tabs” command in firefox, you saw that all the new opened tab overwrite current tabs. So here the fix: go to about:config and set the browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace to false (thanks to codefront.net permanent link [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 29 May 2006 20:35:49 +0000

Thank God for this user tip.

Actually, even changing the setting to false is not enough for me. I would like to disable “Open in Tabs” altogether. I suppose that might be heresy as it is a touted “feature” of firefox but I really do more harm than good with it (slip of the finger and, oops, 30+ tabs start opening up – Esc, Esc, Esc, Ctr-F4, Ctr-F4, Ctr-Alt-Del).

Thanks,
Alex

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:39:21 +0000

oh my god, i’ve been searching all over for a solution to this problem which has plagued me forever

this was a retarded decision by mozilla, and i’m glad to have fixed it and never have to deal with losing important information because i accidentally middleclicked on a folder instead of the tab right below it

By: Scott Ventura

Scott Ventura — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:04:26 +0000

Many thanks for the about:config tip. I’ve been using Mozilla heavily for a year, but have recently been given incentive to switch to Firefox. As I frequently leave a browsing session open for weeks at a time, it’s of vital importance to me that I be able to open my daily reading link folder without trashing existing tabs.

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:19:40 +0000

When you open a bookmark, it *replaces* the previous web page.

I think you misread – I was saying when you middle-click a bookmark, it opens in a new tab. So if you middle-click a bookmark folder, it should open the contained bookmarks in new tabs.

By: Peter Lairo

Peter Lairo — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:15:56 +0000

Cheah: “I’m just asking for consistency (by making the browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace preference false by default).”

When you open a bookmark, it *replaces* the previous web page. Consistent, to me, would be that when you open bookmarked tabs, they should *replace* whatever web page(s) were there.

IMO, the BACK button should restore all previous tabs (bug#?); or the the BACK button’s dropdown could have an item: “Restore previous tabs”. That would solve your problem, without causing inconsistency. :-)

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 05:35:29 +0000

Manuzhai, Joel (Kitching): It’s not a theme, but done through a change to the userChrome.css. I can’t find the original webpage where I got my CSS rules from, but I’m sure this Office 2003 userChrome.css Skin Release thread will do just as well.

By: Cheah Chu Yeow

Cheah Chu Yeow — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 05:32:44 +0000

Peter (Lairo): Well, sure, you can retrieve from history (I almost put that in my blog entry), but most of the time I can’t even remember what were in those tabs. I guess that’s because I have a long history list and a less than perfect memory.

I’m not asking for a big fix, I’m just asking for consistency (by making the browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace preference false by default). “Open in Tabs”, to me, carries the implicit meaning that the tabs will be new tabs and will be non-destructive. Especially when you can do the same with a middle-click, I find it very important not to surprise the user with a different behavior. At the very least, middle-clicking a bookmark folder should append tabs.

Charles (Miller): Hmm.. that sounds really neat. That would be a nice way of implementing “Open in Tabs” (so long as the middle-click thing is consistent like I said just now).

By: Joel Kitching

Joel Kitching — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:03:30 +0000

Somewhat off-topic: what Windows or Firefox theme are you using here? I like the Office 2003-style menus a lot.

I’d also like to know what theme you are using.

By: Bernie Zimmermann

Bernie Zimmermann — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:24:12 +0000

Opera doesn’t have Tabbed browsing, it has an MDI interface.

What was that guy smoking?

By: Thomas Rutter

Thomas Rutter — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:23:30 +0000

Thanks for the mention :)

A concern is that in its current state, there is a ‘Warn when closing multiple tabs’ option which doesn’t cover this particular scenario and thus gives a false peace of mind. I’m more likely to accidentally close multiple tabs using ‘Open in Tabs’ than when closing Firefox.