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My first thought on reading that was, "some people don't know that?!" My immediate next thought was, "I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save

My first thought on reading that was, "some people don't know that?!" My immediate next thought was, "I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours." Is there a wiki for this sort of thing? There needs to be one.

ivankirigin 18y ago
apple-shift-t reopens closed tabs in firefox
- bd 18y ago
  Ctrl-Shift-T on Windows: works in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Also middle click closes tab.
  - zacharydanger 18y ago
    It's the same for Linux, too.
- mark_h 18y ago
  You are my hero. I presume that's built in? I've been using TMP to get the same functionality, but it uses F12 which gets swallowed by firebug if you have that enabled.
  - albertni 18y ago
    Yeah I used to use F12 with Tab Mix Plus until it was swallowed by Firebug, and that's when I discovered Ctrl-Shift-T, which is arguably easier to hit than F12 as well.
  - ivankirigin 18y ago
    heh. Funny thing is that I post or tweet this about once a week. It's my pet project to tell more people about this.
  - auston 18y ago
    how do you get firebug to work with F12 on Mac!?
netcan 18y ago
It's hard to look for things that solve problems you don't know you have.
- 11ren 18y ago
  Now there's an opportunity for a startup search engine.
MikeCapone 18y ago
Ctrl-CMD-D over any word in OS X gives you a definition. Keep holding Ctrl-CMD and move around...
sh1mmer 18y ago
The problem with an obvious things you don't know wiki is that everyone doesn't know something different that's obvious. Putting all those things in one easy to find place makes them hard to find. And if you didn't know what you were looking for in the first place... A wiki with "middle click opens in new tabs" would be noise for me. Nice thought though.
mhartl 18y ago
"I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours." I recently learned about open in OS X: $ open filename This opens filename using whatever the default application is for the file's type.

ivankirigin 18y ago

apple-shift-t reopens closed tabs in firefox

bd 18y ago
Ctrl-Shift-T on Windows: works in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Also middle click closes tab.
- zacharydanger 18y ago
  It's the same for Linux, too.
mark_h 18y ago
You are my hero. I presume that's built in? I've been using TMP to get the same functionality, but it uses F12 which gets swallowed by firebug if you have that enabled.
- albertni 18y ago
  Yeah I used to use F12 with Tab Mix Plus until it was swallowed by Firebug, and that's when I discovered Ctrl-Shift-T, which is arguably easier to hit than F12 as well.
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  heh. Funny thing is that I post or tweet this about once a week. It's my pet project to tell more people about this.
- auston 18y ago
  how do you get firebug to work with F12 on Mac!?

netcan 18y ago

It's hard to look for things that solve problems you don't know you have.

11ren 18y ago
Now there's an opportunity for a startup search engine.

MikeCapone 18y ago

Ctrl-CMD-D over any word in OS X gives you a definition. Keep holding Ctrl-CMD and move around...

sh1mmer 18y ago

The problem with an obvious things you don't know wiki is that everyone doesn't know something different that's obvious. Putting all those things in one easy to find place makes them hard to find. And if you didn't know what you were looking for in the first place... A wiki with "middle click opens in new tabs" would be noise for me. Nice thought though.

mhartl 18y ago

"I wonder what obvious things I don't know that might save me countless hours." I recently learned about open in OS X: $ open filename This opens filename using whatever the default application is for the file's type.