Links in other applications opening in new windows now instead of tabs randomly
Randomly today after booting up my PC and opening firefox links I receive from other people on like AIM or Steam chat open a whole new window where as before they would just open a new tab. It's veryyyy annoying and I have the option "Open new windows in a new tab instead" on. I'm using aurora build by the way, if that matters.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator version:0.1.44.23
- Version 3.10.2.10212
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.8.638
- Google Update
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_33 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- 5.1.10411.0
- Pando Web Plugin
- VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.0
- Unity Player 3.5.0f5
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.3.633
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.0.0
- NPWLPG
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
- Firefox 20.0a2
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130122 Firefox/20.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/20.0a2/WINNT/en-US/
Extensions
- Adblock Plus 2.2.1
- Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.1.2
- Test Pilot 1.2.2
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
- adapterDescription2:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x9647
- adapterDeviceID2:
- adapterDrivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
- adapterDrivers2:
- adapterRAM: 512
- adapterRAM2:
- adapterVendorID: 0x1002
- adapterVendorID2:
- direct2DEnabled: True
- directWriteEnabled: True
- directWriteVersion: 6.1.7601.17789
- driverDate: 4-5-2012
- driverDate2:
- driverVersion: 8.961.0.0
- driverVersion2:
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo'}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 1
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (AMD Radeon HD 6520G)
- windowLayerManagerType: Direct3D 10
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.privatebrowsing.autostart: True
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130122042017
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 20.0a2
- browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled: False
- dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: False
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 20.0a2
- font.internaluseonly.changed: True
- gfx.direct3d.prefer_10_1: True
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1358925560
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.cpd.cache: False
- privacy.cpd.cookies: False
- privacy.cpd.offlineApps: True
- privacy.cpd.sessions: False
- privacy.cpd.siteSettings: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- privacy.sanitize.timeSpan: 0
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Try to set the browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external pref to 3
See also:
Question owner
Hey cor-el, thanks for the tip. I changed it from -1 to 3 but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Thank you for your time.
Try to ask in the daily thread or create a new thread on the MozillaZine Builds forum, maybe someone there knows an answer.
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