I finally made the jump to Linux after one bloody virus related pop-up too many on Windows this past weekend. So far, everything’s been good. But there’s one thing that’s driving me about batty. I can’t figure out how to stop Firefox from opening multiple windows when I click on a link in an email or the occasional site.
I swear there was an option on Windows that when checked forced Firefox to open a new tab if it was already open. Am I going blind, senile or this not an option on the Linux version?
{ 4 comments }
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.
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…
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.
thanks for the tip MP, I was getting annoyed at the new behavior too.
C
Comments on this entry are closed.