FireFox: Forcing New Windows to Open in a Tab

[Joel]

Hey anybody knows a speed up guide for Firefox 1.0??

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Put this is your profile's user.js file. If you don't have one, create it.

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

I have a question somewhat related. When you right-click on a hyperlink and select "Open Link in new tab", can you have it open in a new tab in the background? I would prefer staying on the current web page and just open a tab for the link instead.

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Middle-click your mouse on the link.

[RGSPro]

i love tabbrowser extentions.

[JorgeIvan]

Put this is your profile's user.js file. If you don't have one, create it.

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

Middle-click your mouse on the link.

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Thanks!

[Empyrean]

Middle-click your mouse on the link.

Joel,

That doesn't exactly work as Firefox then focuses on the new tab. I actually want to open a new background tab based on the link and not lose focus of the current page.

Thanks!

[Joel]

Joel,

That doesn't exactly work as Firefox then focuses on the new tab. I actually want to open a new background tab based on the link and not lose focus of the current page.

Thanks!

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In the address bar, type "about:config" without the quotes. In the filter bar type "middle", again no quotes. Double-click the option that says browser.tab.extensions.loadInBackgroundMiddleClick to change it to True.

[Joel]

BTW, for whatever reason (some combination of installing and uninstalling) my TBE issue went away. (Y)

[Andre]

Thing with default FF tab settings is that if you have all in one tab it will open JS windows as tabs as well, which sucks.

I simply installed Single Window extension and it works just fine. All in one window and JS windows in new window when I need.

[JorgeIvan]

Joel, can you give to me your user.js? :)

[.....]

My biggest peeve right now is that I can't make it stop opening a new window when clicking an external link. I don't want EVERY new window to be a tab, just the ones that were tabs in 1.0PR.

If I go to https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=25469 and click on any link in the article, I get a new window. This never happened before, unless I wasn't using TBE. Now with or without TBE it behaves like this.  :angry:  :angry:

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Go to options > advanced > tabbed browsing and untick "select new tabs opened from links" and they will open in the background. (same goes for bookmarks)

[Joel]

I simply installed Single Window extension and it works just fine. All in one window and JS windows in new window when I need.

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Where did you find one that works?

[Joel]

Go to options > advanced > tabbed browsing and untick "select new tabs opened from links" and they will open in the background. (same goes for bookmarks)

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Neither on nor off changes anything for me. I wish those guys would update their extensions. :p

[JCAP]

My biggest peeve right now is that I can't make it stop opening a new window when clicking an external link. I don't want EVERY new window to be a tab, just the ones that were tabs in 1.0PR.

If I go to https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=25469 and click on any link in the article, I get a new window. This never happened before, unless I wasn't using TBE. Now with or without TBE it behaves like this.  :angry:  :angry:

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type about:config in the address bar

type browser.block.target_new_window in the filter and change it to true

[Joel]

type about:config in the address bar

type browser.block.target_new_window in the filter and change it to true

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Would you believe that only helps with external links and TBE together? If I click on an internal link, I get a new window still. :(

[JCAP]

When i set browser.block.target_new_window to true i don't get a new window.

Maybe you should try to re-install Firefox and delete your profile

[Devnull_]

after setting the above option to 'true' you should see

that.

edit again: sorry for unclear directions, hopefully you get it!

-danN

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That's strange, I don't have such an option. What can I do? Im running FireFox 1.0, I just downloaded it about 1 hour and a half ago...

[Menge]

i don't have it either :s

[Si Veteran]

In about:config, enable this (Y)

[Devnull_]

Thanks a lot ultima!

[kalizar]

That's strange, I don't have such an option. What can I do? Im running FireFox 1.0, I just downloaded it about 1 hour and a half ago...

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i don't have it either :s

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Read everything... he's explained this already... its about 3 posts up from that picture...

[Menge]

There ya go!! that displayed the config option :D

[Devnull_]

Put this is your profile's user.js file. If you don't have one, create it.

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

Middle-click your mouse on the link.

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If I don't have a user.js file, where exactly do I create it ?

[Seth]

Note: the tab options for single window mode are hidden by default because that option is not ready for prime time yet, especially on Linux.

[Joel]

If I don't have a user.js file, where exactly do I create it ?

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In C:\Documents and Settings\Joel\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random.default

[kalizar]

so that just speeds up the loading of pages etc?

[Smitjel]

In about:config, enable this (Y)

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Awesome tip!

Why wasn't this enabled by default? You'd think a lot of people would find that very useful...