265237 - Left-click opens "here" link (above URL) in new window. No option exists (?) to force open in current window.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Vernon Nemitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

This may not really be a bug.  It may only be a wish for a new feature.  If
there is a way to ensure that when you left-click on a link, it opens in the
same window, I have not found it (or I cannot NOW find it to check its setting;
maybe it IS set but doesn't work).  In the absence of such a default feature, a
Right-Click on the link should offer the option to "Open link in current view"
right along with "Open link in new tab" and "Open link in new window".  Thanks!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to above URL
2. Find the link in the sentence "Read the complete story here."  This link is
apparently hard-coded in the page source to open in a new window.
3. Left-click; link opens new window instead of filling current window.  Why do
I want that with a tabbed browser?  Close the window
4. After returning to above URL, right-click on the link and note the options. 
Sure, I can open the link in a new tab, and it works fine.  But sometimes I'm
done with the current Web page, and I left-click on a link to replace that page
with a new one.  It is quite annoying when a new Mozilla window opens instead!
Actual Results:  
At Step 3, a new window always opens.  Why do I want that with a tabbed browser?
At Step 4, there is no option to open the link in the current window/tab-view

Expected Results:  
There should either be a default that can be set to force links to always open
(after left-click) in current window, or the little right-click menu should
include the option to open link in current window, if the link is hard-coded to
open in a new window.

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

This does exist. You want to set the hidden preference
browser.target_new_blocked to true. 

1 type "about:config" into you location bar
2 find: browser.target_new_blocked
3 set it to true.

bug 78037 is related to getting UI for this
bug 64560 is for doing the same thing with javascript windows.