Okay, so my friend Orpheum (he's not from Neowin) and I were talking about how much we hate new windows. So we decided to investigate how we can eliminate new windows from being opened by links in Firefox (even if target=_blank on the link). I did a little investigating in about:config, and I found it!

Open up Firefox, open a new tab, go to about:config (just like about:blank but cooler), then scroll down to the 'browser.link.open_newwindow' value, and change the value to '3' (currently set to '2'). Then close that tab!

Now anything that's supposed to open in a new window (it even works in Flash!) will open in a new tab instead! Here's a screenshot for reference.

http://orpheum.ca/imgs/newwindow-to-tab_hack.jpg

thanks for the tip...please for future threads, don't put your title in all caps or leet speak, it's just plain annoying.

um.. i don't call this a hack.. isn't this in the Tabbed Browsing Options of Fx 1.0?

I'm sorry, but wasn't that already found out?

I don't know for sure, but I thought so Great job though

yeah, major feature of the Tabbed Browsing extension

i'm already changing it back, i can't stand having everything open in a tab, somethings need their own window like the neowin assistant, it looks all wonky being stretched over a whole page.

i was wondering if you could do that, thanks

its not a hack and u and ur friend arent the first ones to figure this out. its been discussed multiple times in the mozilla/gecko section of neowin and various other places

thanks dude

didnt kno this existed

This is NOT an essential guide.

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