Wikipedia:Linky tutorial
Linky is a powerful add-on to Firefox that lets you take full advantage of Firefox's powerful tabs and tabbing features. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer does not support Linky.
A "tab" is a window opened within a web-browser. Each tab independently displays a web page. While keyboard shortcut Alt-Tab is used to switch between windows, Ctrl-tab is used to switch between tabs.
What Linky does is lets you open links on pages into tabs in Firefox. To activate Linky, right-click to get Window's drop-down menu. You'll see Linky on there (if you have it installed).
Linky also works on selections (parts of pages). Simply highlight the section of the page with the links you want, by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse down the page, and then right-click. Then click on "open selected links in tabs".
rough notes:
Tabs and tabbing
Firefox's tab feature (especially when combined with the use of the Linky extension and macros) is one of the most powerful tools you can use to work on Wikipedia. It beats AWB in many operations (though AWB beats it in many others).
Firefox (tab controls)
- Rapid page viewing:
- Middle-click (or use Linky, see below) to load 40 or more pages into tabs (Linky opens up to 99)
- To skim through lots of random articles, middle-click on "Random article" 40+ times
- Read or work on one
- When done, press Ctrl-F4 or C-w to close tab and instantly go to the next one
- Great for skimming sets of articles, where you are checking for a missing element, or looking for a particular kind of page or element. Just keep pressing Ctrl-F4 to instantly get rid of the current tab and go onto the next one, cycling through them fast until you find one you are looking for. Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam!
- Middle-click (or use Linky, see below) to load 40 or more pages into tabs (Linky opens up to 99)
- Middle-click on link - create new tab with linked page as its contents
- Ctrl-T - Create new (employ) tab
- Ctrl-Tab - Switch to next tab
- Shift-Ctrl-Tab - Switch to previous tab
- (Find this - Clone a tab (Firefox 2.0))
- Ctrl-Shift-T - un-close a tab (this will even remember contents entered in text boxes like Wikipedia's text editor)
- Or go to the History menu and choose Recently Closed Tabs
Linky
Linky - tab/window creation/management Firefox extension. Opens tabs for each link, or from selected text. Creates list which you can modify before proceeding. Makes "tabbing" even more powerful.
- Select text and then right-click. In the drop-down menu, click Linky/Open selected links in tabs.
Linky
I've made a linky list for you at User:Thehelpfulone/Country list.
Highlight a piece of it at a time (no more than 99 links), by holding down the left mouse button and dragging your mouse down the page. Then right-click to get the drop down menu. Linky will be on there (assuming you have it installed).
click on Linky, and "Open selected links in tabs".
When you are down with a tab, press Ctrl-W, and it will instantly be deleted, and the next tab will be displayed on your screen.
I created the linky list by copying the contents of User:The Transhumanist/Country list into Word, and then using search/replace. WikEd works better, but I don't have access to it on this machine (no Firefox). :(