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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by aeturnum on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:50PM (#14658246)
I like Firefox and I would switch, if it had a "duplicate tab" feature like Chrome. For readers who haven't used this sublime feature, when you duplicate a tab in chrome you get everything - history, tab contents, etc. A straight fort() of the current tab. I use it constantly - google something, click on first link, read a little, duplicate tab, hit 'back' on the duplicate tab and find another result I like.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:59PM (#14658337)
FWIW, when you middle-click the back button (to go back in a new tab) in Firefox, history is cloned, too. (At least on Nightly.)
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by sp332 on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:45PM (#14658768)
Yeah, this has worked on all versions for a long time.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by ZyanWu on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:04PM (#14658379)
It does support that

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762043

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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by aeturnum on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:08PM (#14658420)
Oh hey! So it does. I'm not sure how I would discover it, but it works exactly the same. Very cool - thanks.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by reitanqild on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:14PM (#14658483)
Does that mean we have anprjer happy hn Firefox-user now? :-)
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by aeturnum on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:32AM (#14661015)
It means I'll be trying it out and seeing how I like it.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by frandroid on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:07PM (#14658415)
Have your pick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=duplicate...
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by jsfitzsimmons on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:09PM (#14658434)
Drag and drop a tab to another position on the tab bar while holding ctrl. (Might be command or whatever on Mac?). No idea why this functionality isn't exposed via a menu item.

I just tried it with this tab and not only did I get full back history but it also had my partially entered comment in this form.

Edit: holding ctrl while using back and refresh also duplicate a tab with predictable behaviour.

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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by davidivadavid on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:53PM (#14658280)
How does that differ from what (I suppose) is the common way of doing it, i.e. go through the Google results page and open new tabs for each interesting result?
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by aeturnum on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:11PM (#14658455)
Because each duplicated tab has the full history. No need to preserve the original search tab.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by davidivadavid on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:25PM (#14658604)
Not sure how that's useful.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by shabble on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:59PM (#14658336)
not sure if it's 'Tab Mix Plus' or Tree Style Tabs, but one of those appears to provide the exact functionality you describe.
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Re:Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox by aeturnum on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:13PM (#14658464)
Apparently it's a feature in the base version of firefox, just not one that's exposed prominently (I can't find a menu option - only mouse & keyboard shortcuts).
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