Comments on: Firefox on Linux Mint is driving me batty, please help

By: carlos

carlos — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:26:20 +0000

thanks for the tip MP, I was getting annoyed at the new behavior too.
C

By: Maverick Prowls

Maverick Prowls — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:26:55 +0000

I found this advice on the Ubuntu linux forums which helped me:

Open a new tab, enter about:config in the address bar.
In the resulting list, set the following options:

browser.link.open_newwindow = 3
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction = 0
browser.search.openintab = true

This has solved most of my problems so far.

Credit to “Gausian” who posted this on the Ubuntu Forums.

By: KC

KC — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:17:13 +0000

Hi Steve.

That’s the option I found and checked, but it’s not working. I don’t think it’s the sites as I just checked out a site that’s forcing new windows to open on windows and it opened a tab instead. I also checked it out on my husband’s laptop (he uses Ubuntu) and it did the same thing - forced another window to open.

I know it’s a minor thing - but man is it annoying…

By: Steve Carl

Steve Carl — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:59:15 +0000

Edit / Preferences / Tabs
Select the “A New Tab”

Some pages will still open in new windows: They appear to have found a way around the preference.

This is Mint 3.0 / Firefox 2.0.4 on my computer, but I do not think where this is set it has changed since FF 2.0 came out.

I have not researched this, but there may be some FF extentions that give
you better control, along the lines of what Adblock does for allowing you to remove pages that do no behave. Mozdev.org a good place to poke around for that.