getting control of tabbed browsing

[Matt Morgan]

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.