Links in Thunderbird email open new window in Firefox

[Gene Smith]

Gustavo Seabra wrote, On 12/29/2004 02:04 AM:
> Gene Smith wrote:
> 
>> Gustavo Seabra wrote, On 12/29/2004 12:23 AM:
>>
>>> Gene Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if this is a user problem, TB problem or FF problem or 
>>>> FC3. I think I have the FF prefs right and no matter what I do when 
>>>> I click a link in TB I get a new window in FF when I really want a 
>>>> new tab. Does this actually work for anyone? It worked as expected 
>>>> in mozilla and mailnew in FC2 but not with FF/TB in 64bit FC3. This 
>>>> is with
>>>> FF: 1.0
>>>> TB: 20041216
>>>>
>>>> Was using TB .9 with same results.
>>>>
>>>> -gene
>>>>
>>> Hi Gene,
>>>
>>> I just had the same problem recently. It is a well known bug in 
>>> Firefox, that makes it override your user prefs (although I don't 
>>> have the bugzilla number now). To solve it is actually pretty simple: 
>>> edit the file /usr/bin/firefox to remove the "new-window" parameter 
>>> in line 224, and it should work:
>>> This is how it looks like in my case
>>> ------------
>>> # Old line 224:
>>> # exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM_PARAM 
>>> "openurl($opt,new-window)" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
>>> # new one:
>>>  exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM_PARAM "openurl($opt)" 
>>> 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>
>> Yes it does! Thanks. However, FF/TB seems to have lost the ability 
>> (compared to Moz/Mailnews) to middle click on link in email and load 
>> link in tab in background on the browser. Or am I missing something 
>> here too?
>> -gene
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "load link in tab in background", but 
> recheck your prefs on Firefox. In my case I have, in Prefs --> Advanced 
> --> Tabbed Browsing:
>    Open links from other applications in:
>       --> A new tab in the most recent window
> 
> That works for me, but it brings the new tab up, even if I de-select 
> "select new tabs opened from links". Is that what you mean?
> 

Yes, I have the same setting in Tabbed Browsing as you. What I mean is 
that when I normal click (left click) on a link in TB I now get a new 
tab in FF and FF immediately displays the contents of the new tab. This 
is also how Moz/Mailnew worked. However. with Moz/Mailnews when I middle 
click on link in Mailnew, I would get a new tab and the website would 
load in the tab ("in the background") without changing the main Moz 
window contents. To see the selected site I would have to click on the 
new tab. Now middle clicking in TB just selects the link (draws a box 
around it) and does nothing more. However, middle clicking from within 
FF does exactly as I expect and loads the new site in the tab in the 
background. Hope this makes sense :)  Perhaps since FF and TB are 
separate apps this can't be done?