Right, John. In addition, the Tab Mix Plus extension allows you to configure the Search bar so that each new search opens in a new tab.
Phil Sieg Knoxville, Tennessee USA
John Thompson wrote:
> Donald Gillies wrote:
>
>
>> I use a special firefox browser extension to view vintage bicycle
>> auctions and bikelist.org. I first download the Firefox Extension
>> called "Webmail Compose". (In firefox, select Tools Menu, Extensions,
>> then 'Get more Extensions'.) This tool that allows you to go to ANY
>> Web mailer (i.e. Yahoo!, Gmail!) by left-clicking a mail URL (not
>> just the stupid netscape mailer), or right-click to select a
>> particular mailer to send email (any of 8 different mailers :
>> yahoo!, hotmail! gmail! netscape!, etc. )
>>
>> It is this second option I redirect to get me around the web MUCH
>> FASTER. I reprogram 2 of the mailer options so that I can :
>>
>> (a) select any text URL, then open as an URL. extremely useful on
>> bikelist.org which does not convert URL's into real links.
>>
>> (b) select any Ebay auction number, open that auction right away.
>>
>> (c) you can dream up your own searches, i.e. search for a book on
>> amazon, for example.
>>
>
> If you click the drop-down arrow on the Firefox search box (in the upper
> right corner -- by default this is set to google), you can select from a
> number of different search engines. eBay is one of the included engines.
> Select this, type your query or listing number into the box, hit RETURN
> and you will get the eBay search results. Other search engines can also
> be included here -- see http://mycroft.mozdev.org for a huge list of
> what's available.