I’ve switched from Firefox to Chrome. Firefox kept getting slower and slower, often unresponsive, and I flat gave up on it. Chrome is faster, but a couple of things bug me.
- I like to open links in a new tab. I like it that way because I want to see what it was about while leaving the original page open. As soon as I check out whatever it was, I often close the new tab and go back to the original article. Here’s the problem: I want the new tab to become active when I click on the link. I cannot find a way to make that happen in Chrome.
- There’s no page title displayed at the top of the browser. I often want to see that title up there at the very top of my screen while I’m doing something lower on the screen, like creating a tweet in Seesmic, and want to type the exact title as part of the tweet. I can’t find a way to make page titles viewable either.
Do you know if either of these things are doable in Chrome?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hjaooagfdhdhmbfchnkhggjmacjlacla
That’s an extension for keeping new tabs active. I haven’t used it personally, though (I like inactive new tabs).
As for page title on top of the browser, since there technically is no top, I don’t think it’s possible. If you hold your cursor over the tab’s excerpted title, a tooltip showing the whole title should come up.
I knew about hovering over the tab, but that means interrupting whatever you’re typing the title into to do. Le sigh. I’ll give the extension a try. Thanks for the tip.
Try shift+control+click
Thanks for the tip.
I downloaded the addon that jenn mentioned yesterday and it’s exactly what I wanted.
On my Mac, CMD + SHIFT clicking a link will open the new tab and select it. (Where CMD clicking just opens the new tab in the background.)
Thanks, Thomas. You’d think I’d be able to find something like that in the help files, but I could not. Maybe I wasn’t searching for the right phrase.