Tuesday Tech Tip: Quickly open links in a new tab in Firefox & Chrome
Both CTRL-Left lick and Right-Click|Open Link in New Tab do the same thing. But neither are the most efficient was of opening a link in a new tab. Instead, click on the link with your mouse’s scroll wheel to open that link in a new tab.
UPDATE: Thanks to JD for pointing out that this works in Chrome too.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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