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How Do I Get FireFox to Open a Link in a New Window

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petejc
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I feel ridiculous but I have always set FireFox to open a new window when I clicked on a link. For some reason it stopped doing that today. It just follows the link in the existing window. I cannot find the option to get the old action. Searches bring up methods from many obsolete versions. Even this site brings up over 2800 hits but I can't find the one I need.

I feel ridiculous but I have always set FireFox to open a new window when I clicked on a link. For some reason it stopped doing that today. It just follows the link in the existing window. I '''cannot''' find the option to get the old action. Searches bring up methods from many obsolete versions. Even this site brings up over 2800 hits but I can't find the one I need.

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jonzn4SUSE
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Under Tabs....

petejc
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I don't understand

cor-el
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You can check some prefs on the about:config page. You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can click the button to "Accept the Risk and Continue".

Normal Links:

  • browser.link.open_newwindow
    1:current tab; 2:new window; 3:new tab;

JavaScript Links:

  • browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
    0:divert always; 1:divert never; 2:divert no features
petejc
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This image shows how things were set originally. Is this the closest I can get?

Thanks.

cor-el
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You can possibly set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction = 0 to divert all JavaScript links to a new window.

petejc
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I am trying that but I don't know what to expect.