If you’re like most Firefox users, you probably open multiple sites in the browser at the same time. But if you want to open them all at once, there’s a way to do it without opening the menus. To do this, open Firefox and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the window. This will show a list of your current tabs. From here, select one of your tabs and press “Ctrl+O” to open that tab in a new window. Then select another tab and press “Ctrl+F5” to close the old one and reopen the new one with Firefox’s new menu system.
Stay-Open Menu in Action
You can start using the extension as soon as you have installed it…simply access your favorite links in the “Bookmarks Menu, Bookmarks Toolbar, Awesome Bar, or History Menu” and middle click on the appropriate entries. Here you can see our browser opening the Productive Geek website and that the “Bookmarks Menu” is still open. As soon as you left click on a link or click outside the menus they will close normally like before.
Note: Middle clicked links open in new tabs.
The only time during our tests that a newly opened link “remained in the background” was for any links opened from the “Awesome Bar”.
But as soon as the “Awesome Bar” was closed the new tabs automatically focused to the front.
A link being opened from the “History Menu”…still open while the webpage is loading.
Options
The options are simple to sort through…enable or disable the additional “stay open” functions and enable automatic menu closing if desired.
Conclusion
If you get frustrated with having to reopen menus to access multiple webpages at one time then you might want to give this extension a try.
Links
Download the Stay-Open Menu extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
