Duplicate Tab in Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon July 23, 2006  
Tag Icon Tagged: Browsers

Duplicating tabs in both of these browsers is accomplished the same way. Here’s the shortcut to do it.


As much as they are different, these two tabbed-browsers do a lot of things the same. The most useful thing in common is the shortcut to duplicate a tab. Here’s how…

1. Open either firefox or IE7
2. Click in the address bar
3. Press ALT-ENTER
4. Your current tab will be duplicated.

Yes, this works in both tabbed browsers.

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  • Martin
    Thank you! :D
  • This was very useful, thanks for posting!
  • Thank you!!!! I spent hours on my own! I should look first! We all make mistakes...
  • Kaervas
    ctrl+d instead of clicking in the address bar, works with ie7 and ff
  • A
    ooh! thanks a tonne!
  • Some Guy
    I will say thank you, because I never knew how to do this and this helps a lot. But I wish there was a way to duplicate the tab AND keep the history for that tab. I remember a long time ago in the IE 6 times, you could open a new window with the same URL and history as your current one.
  • Doug Hansen
    Does not duplicate the history, tho. Just the current page.

    Ctrl+N duplicates history and everything but in new browser iteration.

    Would love to see that in a duplicate tab.
  • csaba
    I love you
  • taste4
    Works indeed, but history is not duplicated. For that, press ctrl-key while dragging tab accross; works for FF only.
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