[CLUE-Tech] Mozilla and Tabs

Sean LeBlanc seanleblanc at americanisp.net
Fri Feb 13 09:35:42 MST 2004


On 02-11 07:35, Ski Dawg wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 07:11, Adam Bultman wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > 
> > > By the way... I know tabbed browsing isn't standard (I still come across 
> > > as kind of idiotic whenever I have to use Internet Explorer and people 
> > > see me hitting the middle mouse button like a monkey trying to open a 
> > > coconut), but is there anything mozilla supports in the anchor tag <a> 
> > > for opening new windows in tabs?  Something like target=_blank,  but 
> > > maybe target=_tab?
> > 
> > I don't think that Mozilla has the ability to do that, but Galeon does.  
> > "Open new windows in tabs".  However, I haven't been able to use Galeon in 
> > a while, which is too bad - I really like galeon.
> 
> I was able to do that with Firebird 0.7 version. I just had to load an
> extension. I think the one I used was called Tabbrowser Preferences (it
> is available for Firefox). It says:
> This extension adds GUI options to change some of the hidden tab browser
> preferences available in Firefox. It also enables "single window mode"
> by opening links in a new tab instead of a new window.
> 
> You can see it here:
> http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/tabprefs
> 
> You can check out all the tab extensions here:
> http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/list.php/Firefox/tabs

Since you seem to know a bit about this - have you ever seen an extension
(or an option) that will start a NEW tab when you click on a link (outside
of Mozilla Firefox) instead of loading the link on the current tab?

TIA,

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