Hold down "Ctrl" and click a link to open it in a new tab. Make Firefox automatically switch to newly opened tabs by opening the "Options" window, clicking "Tabs," and then enabling the "When I ...

Firefox opens new tab next to current tab. You can make New tabs open at the end of the Tabs List, as the last Tab on the right. Learn how.

Sure, you can right-click on a link from Google's search results page to open it in a new tab, but that quickly grows tiresome. Instead, tell Google to open results in a new tab by default.

Safari doesn’t have any such setting in its preferences—there is an option to make Command-click open links in new tabs, and that works on links that open new windows.