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Geek Culture / handy "Open URL In New Tab" IE8 accelerator

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Virtual Nomad
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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 06:34 Edited at: 15th Feb 2010 06:39
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for some time now i've been looking for ways to add this functionality to IE8's right-click context menu without playing with the registry (driven mainly by some users refusal to include link tags to urls ) . alas, someone's finally made the accelerator.

i downloaded the "with preview" version but the previews are stored snapshots (at SnapCasa.com, which is probably the benefactor of this "free" accelerator) and pretty much worthless. i'd hoped for a "live" preview window but i guess that's too much to ask for (?) point is, you'll do fine whichever version you choose to add.

ah, here's the (un-linked) url so you can try it out:

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/other/Open_URL_in_New_Tab_with_Preview/

enjoy.

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DJ Almix
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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 08:38
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People still use IE? Although the point of my list was not to dog on it I'm just confused on what this does.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 09:23 Edited at: 15th Feb 2010 09:23
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so you can right-click text and:


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David R
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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 09:25 Edited at: 15th Feb 2010 09:25
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I'm confused as to why IE lacks this button in the first place

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 09:34 Edited at: 15th Feb 2010 09:34
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I loved firefox but I got fed up with them not releasing a patch for the memory leak it has with Windows 7. I used to watch it climb to about a gig and crash the browser. That, and it had issues with Blackboard (a college online class site). I installed Chrome since then and I LOVE it. I probably won't go back to FF, even though I was a FF fanboy. Plus, Chrome is fast.

EDIT: Oh yeah, boo to IE.

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Posted: 15th Feb 2010 13:46
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Just click the mousewheel on a link in FireFox and it opens in a new tab.



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Quote: "Just click the mousewheel on a link in FireFox and it opens in a new tab"


Indeed - I'm not an FF user however, I was merely pointing out that that menu not existing in IE is rather strange considering how pretty much every other browser has it

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To be fair he's referring specifically to non-clickable links. I think some people may be missing this(specifically Nickydude seemed to, not trying to be rude, just informative). Although Chrome does have the right click selected non-clicky URLs and choose to "go to", by default. I'm under the assumption that FF does as well following David's post.

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Quote: "Indeed - I'm not an FF user however, I was merely pointing out that that menu not existing in IE is rather strange considering how pretty much every other browser has it"


Well the functionality has been part of IE since IE 7, and since then there has been an option to open the link in a new Tab. There is no "preview" functionality which the OP was referring to, and Firefox doesn't have that either.


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