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"Open in New Window" shortcut?

Feb 15, 2004 7:42AM PST

I always open a new window when clicking on hyperlinks. Of course to do this, I have to right click on the link and choose "open in new window". Is there any way to have new windows open by just left clicking on the links? I'm still on a dialup connection, so its faster for me to close windows that I'm finished with rather than hitting the back button and having the page reload.

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Re: I'm also on dial up for now
Feb 15, 2004 8:07AM PST

and how I normally do it, is wait for the original page to load until you see the link you want, then click the X in the toolbar to stop the rest of the page from loading if there's nothing else on it you want. Then right click the link you want, open in new window and when you're done close the new window and you're back at the original page without having to refresh it.

There is no other way to get a page to open in a new window unless the website itself has written the link in a certain code to do that for you.

TONI

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Re: "Open in New Window" shortcut?
Feb 15, 2004 9:17AM PST

You can hold down the Ctrl + Shift keys and left-click. This will open the link in a new window.

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Andrea Conti
www.proactivehd.com

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Be brave and try another browser!
Feb 15, 2004 7:02PM PST

IMHO you can't beat Opera browser, especially if you're on dial-up. You can load a page, middle click every link on the page you want to go to, and each link will open in it's own new page in the background while you're reading and clicking on the first page.
By the time you're finished with the 1st page, the 2nd one is already there. By the time you read the 2nd page, the 3rd one is there. You can close the pages as you read them, or do the same thing on these pages, to have links from them opening while you're reading other pages. No more waiting for pages to load unless the pages you are loading are heavy with graphics, and you're a fast reader and clicker, and get done with a page before the next one's ready. Still much faster than waiting for the whole page every time you click.
Like any other new program that you've never used before, you have to spend some time figuring out everything it does and configuring it to work and look the way you like it. It is fully customizable, and there are hundreds of different ways to set the toolbars, buttons, skins, etc.