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How to easily transfer tabs from one PC to another?

I'm logged in with the same Chrome account at two laptops sitting next to each other. Often I want to transfer tabs/windows from one to the other. I could copy&paste the URLs to a .txt file, then use Homegroup sharing to access that .txt from the…
Stefan Monov
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Reorder/rearrange tabs using keyboard shortcut

In Firefox, it's possible to rearrange tabs (reordering, moving to a new window, etc.) by drag-and-drop. But drag-and-drop is slow and unwieldy, and is difficult for some people to use. In Chromium/Chrome, it's possible to reorder tabs using the…
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How to open a set of tabs together quickly?

How to open a set of tabs together quickly? I normally use "Pin Tab" in a session, and if Chrome is closed normally, the previous set of pinned tabs will be opened pinned automatically next time. But sometimes: Chrome is closed in a crash, or I…
qazwsx
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Temporarily disable Javascript for inactive Chrome tabs (except for whitelisted urls) - until active again?

I often am researching stuff, and need lots of tabs open but Chrome can get very slow. I notice that often memory seems to be increasing for chrome processes - even ones I am not interacting with. I suspect this is because of Javascript. Is there a…
Luke Stanley
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CTRL+click not working on Chrome

As in the title, that shortcut doesn't work, and I can open a new tab only with pushing the scroll. Since the CTRL key works perfectly in the other environments, what's wrong with Chrome? I'm using the latest Chrome on Windows 7 Home Premium on a…
clabacchio
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Shortcut to open new tab with selected text in Chrome

I need this shortcut when some website display link in plain text, or I wanna google some words in the page. Right-clicking the menu can do this; but I'd like only use the keyboard which is much more effective. Now I use Cmd-C, Cmd-T, Cmd-V, Enter…
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Save all PDFs in all tabs in Google Chrome

Tab managers are a dime a dozen in Chrome. But do any of them let you save the contents of all the tabs you have open? I have forty-odd PDFs of research papers open in my tabs, and I just want to save the PDFs to disk, then close them all --…
jogloran
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I want a hyperlink to open a browser tab, then all subsequent link clicks go to the same tab

I suspect I'm out of luck on this one, but here goes... Say I have a CHM help file that has http:// hyperlinks embedded in the help pages. When the user clicks on a hyperlink of the style: click…
rossmcm
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Middle clicking a link on chrome sometimes also switches the current tab to the new one

In chrome, most of the time, when i middle click on a link (text or image), it opens a new tab and the current tab does not change. This is the expected behaviour. However, some websites have links (i'd say 5%) that also switches the current tab to…
Benjamin Crouzier
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Is it possible to move Internet Explorer 11's tab bar below all tool bars?

Is there a way to move Internet Explorer 11's tabs BELOW all tool bars, directly above the webpage, as in Firefox?
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Prevent Internet Explorer 8 from asking "Do you wish to close all tabs?"

How do I disable the question Do you wish to close all tabs or only the current tab ? I don't find having to click multiple times, of any use. A don't ask me again option would be nice.
scott
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Firefox changing tabs is slow

How can I diagnose the problem behind the delay I get when changing tabs in Firefox? It is up to about 1.5 seconds. To provide some background, I use three monitors and often have three Firefox windows open at the same time. My machine should be…
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Last Tabs in User Data -- How do I open it into tabs on Chrome

My Chrome browser crashed, but did not restore last session. It found the last tabs open, but it's all in code, although I can see the URLs. How do I open it in the browser itself, getting the tabs? Chrome has some sort of buffer problem that all…
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IE8 and 9 don't open new tabs

Internet Exporer 8 and 9 don't open a new tab when I middle-click, right click and select "Open in New Tab", or control-click. I’ve searched for a solution but I haven’t found a working solution. The problem also occurs when in "No Addons" mode.
edteke
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Throttling ajax requests in firefox

Is there a tool or extension available to allow me to throttle the number of Ajax requests a tab in firefox might invoke? When having 50+ tabs open, xmlhttprequests start consuming more CPU and network bandwidth (especially when I'm tethered to a…
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