OT: Firefox 3.5beta "New Window" behaviour

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun May 31 21:38:38 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 12:15 -0600, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
> On 05/31/2009 09:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I suspect this has nothing to do with Fedora, but if you will indulge me
> > for a moment:
> >
> > In FF N, for N < 3.5, I used to click on a URL in (say) a mail message,
> > and get a new browser window. However when I clicked on a URL from
> > within a browser window, I got a new tab. This was how I liked things to
> > work.
> >   
> 
> Does middle button click (as opposed to left button click) on a link in 
> mail message open new window or new tab?

>From a browser window it get a new tab, independantly of the preferences
setting. However this doesn't let me open a new window when clicking
from my mailer, which is what I want. External apps such as the mailer
usually only react to left-click in any case.

poc




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