Tell Firefox to show popups normally and not in a new tab
by Greg 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!
May 7th, 2008 on 10:50 pm
Thanks a ton man – it was really irritative without that!
May 30th, 2008 on 1:17 pm
Ah! Thank you so much for revealing this bizarre glitch. Much appreciated
May 2nd, 2009 on 4:33 pm
Whoa, thanks! That’s an annoying problem. Glad you figured it out. I’m wondering if an extension I installed recently did it…
May 15th, 2009 on 10:30 am
Thx a lot for such info u really helped me out :)
June 2nd, 2009 on 9:28 pm
Thank you so much!
June 14th, 2009 on 6:49 am
I think I love you slightly!
July 15th, 2009 on 8:28 am
It’s great solution! Thanx, man!
August 13th, 2009 on 2:43 pm
Thanks a bunch. Here is my beer!!!
September 22nd, 2009 on 8:40 am
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
November 23rd, 2009 on 4:03 am
First link in my google search =) …Awesome, thank you so much for posting this.
December 6th, 2009 on 1:18 pm
Thanks!
Helpful post.