Dual open new tab option
Just returned from a relative, who's also using FF. Much to my amazement, she has both a "Open new tab" icon on the menu bar and the "+" tab on the tab bar, whereas I can only drag it from one to the other, but there doesn't seem to be any way of having both options. It's not a very big deal, but sometimes it's useful to be able to open a new tab either way.
Is there any way of enabling this feature, and I'm not really afraid of editing any files to do so?
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You can do that with code in userChrome.css
Drag the new tab button on the Tab bar to another toolbar via customize to make it visible there and use code in userChrome.css to make the original new tab button on the Tab bar visible as well.
The customization files userChrome.css (interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#new-tab-button { visibility:visible!important; }
.tabs-newtab-button { visibility:visible!important; }
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She's either using an older version of Firefox (like 3.6 or older)', or she has an extension installed which added that button back into Firefox. That button was removed from the Firefox 4 version.
She was on 8.0.1, I upgraded her to 9.0.1 and the only extensions she uses are NoScript and NewTabURL... Furthermore, starting in "safe-mode" will still show both the button and the "+" tab!
Sorry, I have never seen a New Tab button in the palette in any 4.0+ version - SafeMode included.
Sorry, my fault it's in the "Navigation Toolbar", and not in the menu toolbar.
- New tab toolbar button: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-toolbar-button/
Sigh....
My wife's cousin uses an unmodified version of FF 9.0.1, with two add-ons, NewTabURL and NoScript.
It has both an"Open new tab" button on the "Navigation toolbar" and "+" tab on the tab bar. Both of these are also present if FF is opened with all add-ons disabled.
I do not want add-ons to get something that can very obviously be obtained by plain-vanilla FF!
I can drag the "Open New Tab" button from the "Navigation Bar" to the Tab Bar, where it will happily turn itself into a "+" tab, I can do the reverse, but there seems to be no way of having it in both places at the same time, and yet she has a version of Firefox that does have the two "buttons" simultaneously - we are both running a fully up to date XP Pro SP3...
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You can do that with code in userChrome.css
Drag the new tab button on the Tab bar to another toolbar via customize to make it visible there and use code in userChrome.css to make the original new tab button on the Tab bar visible as well.
The customization files userChrome.css (interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder.
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */
#new-tab-button { visibility:visible!important; }
.tabs-newtab-button { visibility:visible!important; }