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“Force link that open new window to open in new tab” for Firefox 2
Published November 5th, 2006 in tips.30 Responses to ““Force link that open new window to open in new tab” for Firefox 2”
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You’re right, I don’t know why FF 2.0 disabling this future in default (like in FF 1.5.x), annoying..
I’ll try your setting… Thanks a lot
nb:
isn’t it need to be restarted after applying the config?
Hm, nice..
Everyone should have their own way to use this browser.
So it would be not good if Firefox try to remove this feature.
to Andi:
I’ve tried it before, and I don’t need to restart my browser.
This should fix the problem..
Tab Mix Plus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/
I’ve just tried it, and worked!
some open-new-window links specify the size of the window, in which case the following needs to be 0 to keep it from opening a new window:
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
Thank you for the tip, Jan!
I cant find the reason why, but when i upgraded from FF1.5 to FF2.0 the only thing that i didnt like was the fact that when i used to perform a search in Google, each click of a result would open in a new tab, which is how i set my Tab Mix addin. No for some bizzare reason, the first click opens a new tab, but then each click on another search result overwrites the new tab.
Thanks for the tip. I missed not having this feature in the settings for FF2.
thanks very much for this - it’s been annoying me since the upgrade and now it’s fixed!! yay~
Do you guys know which setting will force new links to open in a separate tab.
When searching on Google my preferences are set to open results in a new window and in FF 2 news pages to open in a new tab. The first result will open a new tab and each result I click after that opens in that same tab.
Thank you very much for the tip. I hope this gets to the top of google so everyone will go here first
Thank you. What is strange is that my default settings were 3/3/2. In changing the 2 to a 0, I get the desired result - window.open now opens a new tab and not a new window.
Thank you again.
Thanks!. Changing:
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
from 2 to 0 was necessary.
What I really like about this tip is it makes Google Reader behave the way *I* want it to. It annoyed me no end that pressing V to open a post would either force a new window to open or would open the article in the same tab as Reader.
Now V will make it open in the next new tab, which is How I Like It
Thanks!
Open about:config
I’m new at this, where can I find that file? I’ve searched the drive but no results.
Thanks
I cried multiple solutions to force links that opened in new windows to open in new tabs. (Tab Mix Plus add on was a disaster with FireFox 2.0)
Finally, Richard Q’s solution was the one that worked for me.
Thanks!
I tried multiple solutions to force links that opened in new windows to open in new tabs. (Warning: Tab Mix Plus add on was a disaster with FireFox 2.0)
Finally, Richard Q’s solution was the one that worked for me.
Thanks!
I too had to set it to 0. 2 was my default.
Months later and the value of this tip continues.
Thanks.
Thank you I was looking for this solution whole day.
May the fox be with you..
This was useful. Although, I expected this to happen by default when I changed Tab preferences here: New pages should be opened in a new tab.
Also all the Google search and Google news results open in the same tab, which is annoying. It must be that Google specifies the same window name, or something like that. Because other sites which link out open links in a new tab now.
thank you! that was starting to annoy me, having all those windows.
Thank you sooooooooo very much! That was the worst and I couldn’t find the solution anywhere until I found this!
Do you know of a way to code a hyperlink so that it’s forced to open in an IE tab within Firefox?
I had the same experience as Richard - setting browser.link.open_newwindow.restrictionat at “0″ worked, NOT setting it at “2″ (which is the default). In any case, it now behaves as desired. Thanks all!