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:
- ‘browser.link.open_external’ should be 3
- ‘browser.link.open_newwindow’ should be 3
- ‘browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction’ should be 0
Thanks for that – it was really annoying me.
thanks, I was irritated by this for a long, long time.
You’re Da Man, TYVM, so long that I’ve been looking for a solution for this annooooying issue…
Thanx again
Thanks. I love it when someone knows EXACTLY what the solution is.
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?.