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Opening URLs in a new tab

In Firefox when you go up to the location bar and enter a URL, the new page is usually shown in the current window/tab. But if you hold down the Option key (on the Mac, maybe a slightly different key on Windows) while you press Enter, the new page will open in a new tab.
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Added: on Jul 28, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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