How can I customize the behaviour of clicking a link with the middle mouse button?
I just upgraded to Firefox 24ESR as part of an update of CentOS 5 (RHEL5) and now middle clicking on a link opens the link in a tab and not in a new window (like it did with Firefox 17ESR). I want to restore the middle click on a link behaviour to what it was under Firefox 17ESR. I *hate* tabs and don't want them, ever.
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Hello,
To fix this, please go to the Firefox Preferences panel, and make sure the Tabs > Open new windows in a new tab instead preference is not checked.
Then, type "about:config" in your location bar. In the page that appears, please click the "I'll be careful" button. In the search bar at the top of the page, type "browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick." Set the preference that is shown to false by double-clicking it.
Hope this helps!
- Josh
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Hello,
To fix this, please go to the Firefox Preferences panel, and make sure the Tabs > Open new windows in a new tab instead preference is not checked.
Then, type "about:config" in your location bar. In the page that appears, please click the "I'll be careful" button. In the search bar at the top of the page, type "browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick." Set the preference that is shown to false by double-clicking it.
Hope this helps!
- Josh
Modified by Joshua Smith
Ah, forgot to upload the second image :)
Note that if you edit a reply to add more images that it can take minutes before those images appear, so be patient and come back later and the image(s) will show (now you have three of them).
Maybe a bug needs to be filed on this issue.
Thanks for the info cor-el! I just filed Bug 958285 to address this issue.