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TabSubmit - a grea Firefox add-on

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I've been a huge fan of the simple firefox plugin known as SubmitToTab; it basically lets you click on a form submit button but force the resulting web page response to open in a new tab.

Unfortunately, the SubmitToTab plugin has not been updated in a while and is not compatible with the latest FireFox 4.

While we initially posted a small patch to the addon by one of the dc members, that let it run in FireFox 4, today we got word of a brand new addon for FireFox that provides this functionality.  It's called TabSubmit, it works perfectly in FireFox 4 and is being actively maintained.  Big thumbs up!

kliu0x52 writes:

..Unfortunately, that only results in a partially-working extension.  It works for some forms, but is broken on many others.  If you look at STT's code, you'll see that it's extremely fragile; it hooks itself into Firefox by literally re-writing built-in handler functions (see the gratuitous use of eval in the source), and that's just too fragile and buggy of an approach.

I've done a complete from-the-ground-up rewrite of STT.  Works in Firefox 3 and newer and SeaMonkey 2 and newer.  In Firefox 4 and SeaMonkey 2.1, it takes advantage of the new bootstrapping mechanisms so that it can be installed and uninstalled without restarting the browser.  Oh, and it works more reliably than the old STT.

http://code.kliu.org/misc/tabsubmit/
https://addons.mozil...org/addon/tabsubmit/

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