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.

    Reply to Jaryd

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