Matt Pobursky wrote:

> I don't manually open new tabs often because there's really no need to. 

Not new tabs, but existing tabs in a new window. I do that frequently.

> I can't ever remember wanting to open a new tab that had the same content
> as one that's already open. I suppose there's a reason for it though,
> after all you did ask about it... ;-)

I don't know Vitaliy's reason, but here's why I do it... I usually group
pages/sites that belong together (for example, a research on an issue) as
tabs in a window. Sometimes, one of these pages looks like it would start a
sub-search of its own, say, following some of its many links. That would
then really make the one window with already many tabs difficult to work
with, so I just "Duplicate Tab to New Window", and there it is, for further
use.

There's also a good use for duplicating a tab as tab; for example, when you
want to continue navigating a site, but also want to keep the current page.
There are many sites where just copying the URL isn't enough (for example,
when there were POST requests in the way to that particular page).
"Duplicate Tab" helps with this.

Gerhard

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