October 16th, 2023

A guide to duplicating tabs in Horse

Horse redirects you to an existing page instead of duplicating it. When you actually want a duplicate, here’s how to make one.

140 words by Eleanor McKeown

Horse handles duplicate pages a little differently from other browsers. Open a page that’s already in your sidebar and Horse takes you to the existing one instead of making a second copy. Useful default, most of the time, that’s what you actually wanted.

When you do want a duplicate (you’re filling in a form on one copy and want a fresh blank version on the other, say), it’s a single shortcut.

Default: redirected to the existing page

If a page is already open somewhere in your Trail, opening it again from a link or a search jumps you to the existing one. The sidebar stays one row long instead of two.

Making a deliberate duplicate

When you want two copies of the same page, both editable independently:

Menu > File > Duplicate Trail

Horse Menu with option to duplicate Trail
Horse Menu with option to duplicate Trail

Keyboard shortcut

Mac: ++D

Windows / Linux: Ctrl++D

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