Firefox, opening a new tab

[Panic Button]

I am now using Firefox, as IE kept freezing up on me.

I am getting used to it now, but I can't see how to open a second tab.

The only way I have found so far is to click on someones link in an AB answer and use that.

[Ethel]

Ctrl and T will open a new tab

[ChuckFickens]

file menu... new tab

Ctrl + t

or how I do it...

Click tools and add-ons then search for "new tab"

You should find an add-on called new tab button on right (or something like that) install it, restart firefox and you'll have a new tab button just to the right of the last tab opened (just like in IE)

[Ethel]

That was a rubbish answer, sorry. Control and T will certainly open a new tab, but you can set it to open a new tab from links and from your search box.

Tools - options - tabs

Make sure 'new pages should open in new tabs' is ticked

[Ethel]

Ooops - I meant my answer was rubbish, not Chucks. :)

[ChuckFickens]

LOL... I figured that Ethel :)

[Rollo]

Or

At the top of the Firefox window On the menu bar, click the File menu and select New Tab

Or

Just Double-click an empty space in the Tab Bar.

[Panic Button]

Ah, I found a better way Chuck.

View
Toolbars
Customise

then I dragged a new tab button onto my toolbar.

Thanks everyone.

[Panic Button]

Rollo, I don't have a tab bar until a second tab is opened.

[Rollo]

Yes, that's right. You have to have have tabs already ion order to get a new one by double clicking.

I have the tab button on the toolbar, and use that once. Then I just double click on the tab bar.

[Panic Button]

Rollo, following Ethel's link:

Tools
Options
Tabs

there is an option available to always show the tab bar, but I do not have it selected.