Duplicate Tab in Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

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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.

 

14 Comments -


  1. Martin said on October 14, 2008

    Thank you! :D

  2. thebitguru said on January 8, 2009

    This was very useful, thanks for posting!

  3. matt said on April 28, 2009

    Thank you!!!! I spent hours on my own! I should look first! We all make mistakes…

  4. Kaervas said on May 2, 2009

    ctrl+d instead of clicking in the address bar, works with ie7 and ff

  5. A said on May 28, 2009

    ooh! thanks a tonne!

  6. Some Guy said on June 17, 2009

    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.

  7. Doug Hansen said on July 1, 2009

    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.

  8. csaba said on September 7, 2009

    I love you

  9. Anonymous said on September 17, 2009

    Works indeed, but history is not duplicated. For that, press ctrl-key while dragging tab accross; works for FF only.

  10. Asweek said on April 18, 2010

    Instead of step 2. (Click in the address bar) you can do Ctrl+L

  11. admin said on March 22, 2011

    Thank you! It may be an old posting but still very helpful.

  12. Anonymous said on April 7, 2011

    ctrl + k works in ie9 but ctrl + d instead opens a favorite dialog box in both browsers.

  13. Tom said on September 11, 2011

    There’s ANOTHER way to DUPLICATE TABS:

    While holding down the control key (Windows), click and drag the desired [TAB] over into the blank space next to it.

    CHEERS

  14. tyw7 said on November 8, 2011

    IE9 have a new “duplicate tab” functionality that keeps the back history as well! Right click any tab and click duplicate tab!

 

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