Force links that open new windows to open in new tabs in firefox.

Posted on Tuesday the 7th of August, 2007 at 10:45 am in Asides

I’ve used Firefox for years mostly for the tabs. However, Firefox 2 removed the ability to “force new windows to open in tabs” and lately my number of “required” extensions have built up to the point that opening a new window takes 5-10 seconds. Which makes the occasional link that forces a new window very irritating.

To force all new windows into tabs type about:config in your url bar and set the following properties:

  1. ‘browser.link.open_external’ should be 3
  2. ‘browser.link.open_newwindow’ should be 3
  3. ‘browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction’ should be 0
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  1. Jaryd posted the following on July 11, 2008 at 7:42 pm.

    Thanks for that – it was really annoying me.

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  2. Pat posted the following on July 24, 2009 at 6:22 pm.

    thanks, I was irritated by this for a long, long time.

    Reply to Pat
  3. Johnbarnes posted the following on November 7, 2009 at 5:30 pm.

    You’re Da Man, TYVM, so long that I’ve been looking for a solution for this annooooying issue…

    Thanx again :)

    Reply to Johnbarnes
  4. mario posted the following on June 4, 2010 at 6:49 pm.

    Thanks. I love it when someone knows EXACTLY what the solution is.

    Reply to mario
  5. Connor posted the following on October 26, 2010 at 2:47 pm.

    This edit to the config did not resolve this issue for me. I have iGoogle as my homepage with widgets installed. One of those widgets is NPR and it will not allow a new tab or a new window to be selected from the menu for any of the links. Is there a way to force any and all links to open in a new tab or window regardless of how the Webmater wrote the page?.

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