Opening Non-Enabled Links in a New Tab

December 19, 2006 - 12:00am

sudont asks:

Question

Sometimes a web address doesn’t show up as a link on a web page (in Safari), but you can resort to the Contextual Menu Item “Go To Address”. The only thing is, it opens in the same tab you’re in, and often I’m not done reading that page. Is there a way to get it to open in a new tab?

Answer

You’re opening it via a different method than a link, so there’s no direct parallel for the command, no. However, you can select the text, click and hold a little while, then drag the URL to an empty spot on the tab bar to make a new tab with that link.

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December 20, 2006 - 9:11am

davidr said

Continuing on the same thread.. how do I have my Google query open in a new tab? What I do is (in Safari) to select some text, right click it and say search in Google. What I really want is for the results to open in a new tab instead of recycling my existing page.

Suggestions?

Oh, and a comment on the answer above: how do I make a new tab if my tab bar is full and there is no empty space to drop it into? Other than the obvious: command-tab makes a new tab, and drop it into that!

Dave

January 12, 2007 - 12:23am

iadams said

If your tab bar is full, then you should have the little arrow widget on the right of the tab bar. If you drag the text onto that, it should open it up in a new tab.

Yep, I just tested it and it works.

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