Links in Thunderbird email open new window in Firefox

Gene Smith gds at chartertn.net
Wed Dec 29 06:53:13 UTC 2004


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





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