How to open a link in a new tab on a Mac by using a keyboard command in Chrome or Safari You can also open link in new tab by using the Mac keyboard shortcut: Hold down the COMMAND key and then. The first thing we must do is open the Tab Switcher Page. From within this page, you can give focus to any tab you currently have open. This page must be opened, in order to run the search.
- If you'd like to quickly switch between open apps on a Mac, press Command+Tab. A row of app icons will appear in the center of your screen. If you hold the Cmd key down while tapping the Tab key, the cursor will move between the icons from left to right.
- You can reopen a tab you recently closed on a Mac in Safari using a keyboard shortcut or a menu option. You can also reopen tabs you closed days ago going through the History in Safari.
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This behaviour is not new; it worked also on 10.5.x and Safari 4 (at least, cannot remember if it worked in older releases).
I thought this was well known. It was added in Safari 3.1 and even noted on MacOSXHints back in March 2008! I guess Mac OS X Hints is so big now you can recycle old hints because the editors can't even remember what they've previously posted.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080319132933761&query=%252525s
New editor, so it's not surprising he doesn't remember doing it before - it wasn't him! ;)
There is another way which has been missed. With the text-cursor in the URL location bar, command-return will open the URL in a new tab. For the sake of completeness, option-return will download the file in the URL location bar.
... and cmd-shift will make a new, active tab (or otherwise as defined in Safari Prefs).
The same works for the Google search bar.
This behavior is new to me because that space never exists for me (i.e., I have 30 tabs open at once all the time :)
I think this had been standard since 10.4 at least.
Sort of related - sort of different. You probably know that if you select some text in a page and right click on it (assuming a multi-button mouse) you can search for that term using your default search engine (Google, by default). However, if you hold the control key down, your search will take place in a new tab. So this is yet another way to open a new tab - and perform a search in that tab.
I'm not sure how you do this (or not do this) with a one-button mouse (I'm not with my Mac right now).
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I think you mean the Command key and not the control key
I always use middle-click (click the scroll wheel) to open links in a new tab. Guess that might not work on a magic mouse or trackpad, at least without some 3rd party software (at which point I'd rather just cmd-click).
The one I use most commonly is missing. If you click a link with the scroll wheel button on your mouse, it will open the resulting page in a new tab.
I am pretty sure these are well-known, but they are not mentioned in the list. If you hold down the command button while pressing return in the Google search box, your search will open in a new tab. Also, if you hold down command while clicking on the Back button, the previous page will open in a new tab.
-Mark
Thanks, Mark. Both those were new and useful to me.
A further way is to click the link and hold the mouse button/track pad depressed and dragging. You'll notice the link appears in a grey box, which means you can then drag it into the tab bar. I assume you can also drag it elsewhere (main address bar, albeit pointless to do so, or a text document or something) but I haven't ever tried.
Tomorrow's tip: did you know you could open hyperlinks by clicking on them?! (OK, so this one isn't that bad, but I thought it was fairly widely known.)
It's also possible to make a new tab by pressing Command+Enter in the Safari search box or contextual menu in Finder. This makes a new tab with the search results, handy if you don't want to leave the current open tab.
Firefox opens a new tab with just a single click.
In the terminal, I would like to be able to simply type a literal 'tab' character. I know, by default, the tab key is used for auto-completion based on file system (I would like to keep it that way).
I tried several things, nothing seems to work for me:
- Copy-paste an existing tab character within the terminal
- Add keyboard shortcut in the Terminal preferences > Settings > Keyboard (/011)
- Insert 'LINE TABULATION' character from the Terminal > Edit > Special Characters... window
Hopefully, someone has done this before?
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Posted on Nov 7, 2009 5:21 AM
