Tell Firefox to show popups normally and not in a new tab

by on Sep.28, 2007, under Internet

For some reason or other, Firefox does not have the option under the Tabs option items to “force links that open in new windows to open in:”. I have Firefox 2.0.0.7 now, and I don’t have that under Tabs options. But, if you open about:config in your address bar, you can change the setting manually.

Change: browser.link.open_newwindow

Mine was set to 3, which told the popups to always open in a new tab. I like that, mostly. But some web sites, TinyMCE editor in this case, like to open a popup and return you back the the original page. I keep losing that original popup. So I wanted to turn off my popup forced to new tab option. To make this behave normally, I set it to 2. All worked just peachy!

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  • brainchild

    Thanks a ton man – it was really irritative without that!

  • Hank

    Ah! Thank you so much for revealing this bizarre glitch. Much appreciated

  • http://abrokenmold.blogspot.com/ Nathaniel

    Whoa, thanks! That’s an annoying problem. Glad you figured it out. I’m wondering if an extension I installed recently did it…

  • http://www.geeeeonline.com Geeee

    Thx a lot for such info u really helped me out :)

  • Marcus

    Thank you so much!

  • http://www.davestewart.co.uk Dave Stewart

    I think I love you slightly!

  • http://swimming.ru Detergen

    It’s great solution! Thanx, man!

  • Doug

    Thanks a bunch. Here is my beer!!!

  • hoppy

    In fact, the real solution is one line below: you have to edit the Browser.link.open newwindow.restriction to 2

    The above tuning also opens all links in a new window, instead of tabs. Take a look here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

  • great

    First link in my google search =) …Awesome, thank you so much for posting this.

  • http://www.zbijowski.net/blog/ szbijowski

    Thanks!
    Helpful post.

  • Baja

    Hi, I also had problems wit TinyMCE pop-ups.
    In FF 3.6.20 change browser.link.open_newwindow to 4, should work.
    Thanks for the tip! 

    • Baja

      hoppy is right, it makes all external links open in new window . So I have not found a solution for TinyMCE popups

  • Djomla

    Omg thanks… I had this problem like a yaer! Couldn’t reslove it. I change this to 4, and it works!!!

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