Links in Thunderbird email open new window in Firefox

[Gustavo Seabra]

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.


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Gustavo Seabra - Graduate Student
Chemistry Department
Kansas State University
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