Firefox 3: Display Search Results in New Tab

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon March 26, 2008  
Tag Icon Tagged: Mozilla Firefox

When you use Firefox’s search bar, the results are displayed in the current tab. This can get rather annoying when you are don’t want the current tab to leave the web page you were on. To make your search results appear in a new tab, follow these steps:


1. Launch Firefox.

2. In the address bar, type about:config and hit Enter on your keyboard.

3. Scroll down to browser.search.openintab and double-click it to change the value to True.

Now when you use Firefox’s search bar, your results will always appear in a new tab.

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  • Anonymous
    And for those who like simplicity: use Alt+Enter instead of Enter when you search to have search results appear in a new tab.

    Pros:
    - you control when FF opens a new tab; sometimes reusing an open tab is desirable
    - simplicity

    Cons:
    I don't see any - do you?
  • davak
    Awesome addition, Kiki. Great information.
  • Anonymous
    whr can i get firefox 3? is it a beta version? coz my firefox 2 says no updates found.
  • pi
    ..or you can install google toolbar, then change the settings to open search in new tab :)
  • Kamakiri
    Anonymous (1), it 's not simple really. The negative part is you'll have to use Alt+Enter every time. The tip at the top is better.
  • emarell
    I don't get it. Tip does not do it in Firefox 3.5.1. - even though the about:config entry mentioned here is at "true" using the search bar always replaces the current tab's contents.
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