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Firefox 3 to feature tab duplication

December 13th, 2007

Firefox 3 will let you duplicate currently opened tabs. This may come handy for those times when you need to split navigation but need to keep a copy of where you started, or are about to take action on a web page that may change it and want to keep a reference.

Whatever the reason, you will just have to press the Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) key while dragging the tab you want to duplicate and dropping it where you want it to appear. To visually differentiate from plain old tab moving, the mouse cursor changes to a copy cursor with a cross.

So far, there is no user interface such as main menu or context menu item to duplicate a tab. Also, note that the duplicated tab doesn’t inherit the original tab’s history.

Via Mozillalinks.org