270083 - Tab browsing prefs don't work on context menu "Search web for"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227710

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[wjbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When setting all user prefs through about:config to disable tabs, the user still
gets tabbed browsing when highlighting text on a web page and choosing "Search
web for" through the context menu.  Tabs the the context search should be able
to be disables also for people who don't want tabbed browsing at all.

What would be nice would be a switch in the preferences dialog that switches
tabs off globally.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Luke]

this behavior is indeed very frustrating for users that don't use tabs, i don't
believe anyone is trying to "force" tabs on anyone.

the question is how is this controlled, since the browser.link.open_external
preference would be a bit of a misnomer - however it IS external to the page
being viewed, so i think it is not "incorrect" to use it, perhaps a relabeling
of the options page is required for clarification. 

the OpenSearch() function would need to be modified to be tab "neutral" and
utilize the openURI() function with an external context, with a
OPEN_DEFAULTWINDOW target.

Comment 2

[Ian Nartowicz]

Seems to be a duplicate of bug 219532.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227710 ***