Open links in new tab in Firefox? [SOLVED]

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Dec 27 17:42:38 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 07:39 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I configure Firefox so that it will  open a link in a new tab 
> > instead of a new window? I  already have this option selected in the 
> > Firefox preferences --> Advanced --> Tabbed browsing -->
> >   "Open links from other applications in:"
> >        ...
> >        "a new tab in the most recent window.",
> > but when I click on a link in Thunderbird, it always opens a new 
> > Firefox window. Is there anywhere else I should change?
> > I'm using:
> >    FC3
> >    KDE
> >    Firefox 1.0
> >    Thunderbird 0.9
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> Thanks a lot for the answers. The way I solved it was just changing the 
> line 224 in /usr/bin/firefox to remove the new-window parameter from the 
> Firefox call, as suggested by Mariano and in the bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138789
> That solved it.
> 
> Thanks.
	If you replace the "window" with "tab" so it reads ",new-tab" you won't
destroy the current tab, but add a new tab.  I likes it!


Scott




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