What’s new?
- Hold the Shift key to halt all functionality; you can click or right-click objects during this time. As long as you hold down the Shift key, putting your mouse over an item won’t invoke its action.
- Hold the Ctrl key to open links in new windows/tabs. Note that this only works if your popup blocker is disabled, due to the use of the window.open() command.
You can still grab the script at the same location as before.
Great Script! I just have one question. Normally, when holding the CTRL and clicking, it would open the new window in a tab (or at least, it does for me). When I hold CTRL down and run my mouse over the link, it tries to open a new window. How can I restrict it just to tabs? I like tabs better as it seems to keep my stuff more organized.
July 5th, 2005 at 11:36 am
As far as I know, the only way to open a new tab is to call the window.open() command and setup Firefox to open new windows as tabs. Look around for some tab-related extensions for Firefox, and you shouldn’t have anymore problems.
July 5th, 2005 at 11:46 am
hmmm, I’m really new to this…so I don’t know what exactly to look for or where to put window.open ()
July 5th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
What? What are you trying to do? It already uses window.open().
July 5th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
all I want your script to do is, when holding with CTRL and running my mouse over the link, instead of it opening up a new window, I’d like it to open in a new tab. Is this possible with your script?
July 5th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
No, it isn’t. You have to configure Firefox to open a new tab when the window.open() command is invoked. There is an extension that gives you that ability. Try these extensions: tablib, Tabbrowser Preferences, QuickTabPrefToggle, miniT. The QuickTabPrefToggle is probably what will make it work, because it enables the “single window” mode. I’m pretty sure that’s what you’re after.
July 5th, 2005 at 3:52 pm
That’s too bad it won’t work with your script as the ability to not have to click is what makes your script great. If, in the future, you figure out how to do this, I’d love to see the ability to run my mouse over links and it open up in a new tab rather than a new window.
July 6th, 2005 at 7:20 am
I just said that you can make it open a new tab if you install a Firefox extension. What is so difficult to understand about that?
July 6th, 2005 at 9:46 am
Hey… you’re using my name… :P
July 6th, 2005 at 3:56 pm
i wish you have a icon on the status bar to toggle the function, is that possible?
great script, thanks!
August 20th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
another function needed to make this work, more practically: let user define a click delay tolerance time!
for example, on a forum page, to move the cursor onto a link, passing on other links is like inevitable~~ OJL
August 20th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
If you hold Shift, Dontclick.it is disabled until Shift is released again.
Click delay time would defeat the purpose of eliminating clicking, because if there were a delay, clicking would not take as long as running your mouse over a link. If that was the case, you’d end up wasting the very time you were trying to save by avoiding clicking.
August 21st, 2005 at 7:07 am