getting control of tabbed browsing

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:14:23 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:52:59 -0500, Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ben: Wow, those are some serious warnings on his website. I loaded it up
> > > - so far, so good. I went through the prefs and only changed a couple of
> > > things. He seems to default to forced single window, just what I wanted.
> > > Thanks for the tip. I just clicked on a link from an email message in
> > > Thunderbird and it opened the link in a new tab in the currently open
> > > window - perfect.
> >
> > There is a simpler way to do this. Type about:config into the address
> > bar, and set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true. This
> > makes the Single window Mode option show up in the advanced section.
> > This will not give you the fancier features such as scroll wheel tab
> > switching and things like that.
> 
> That sounded great to me, and I've always really wanted this to work,
> so I tried it.
> 
> Same as always. No matter what I set in Firefox's advanced section,
> links in TBird ALWAYS open in a new Firefox window.
> 
> Do other people seriously have this working (without the
> above-mentioned extension)? I'm using the FC3 packages, nothing
> special or custom, but no matter what I do, links from TBird never
> start a new tab in the existing FF window.
> 

It seems like an old problem that should have been solved at this
point. Take a look at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=110429781629755&w=2


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