271185 - Option to make left click always open links in current tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78037

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Johan Walles]

When I click on links I:
Middle-click to open the link in a new tab.
Left-click to open the link in the current tab.

However, this scheme is thwarted by some web developers that use target="blah"
in their links.  The effect is (obviously) that when I left click some links, I
get a new window, which is *never* what I want.

I'd like Mozilla to have an option to *always* open left-clicked links in the
current tab, regardless of what the HTML code says.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269942 ***

Comment 2

[Johan Walles]

AFAICT bug 269942 says that everything that the web page wants to open in a new
window should go into a new tab.

This bug says that everything I don't explicitly tell the browser to open in a
new tab should open in the current tab.

Not the same thing.

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

The target="blah" case is already handled by the hidden pref
browser.block.target_new_window. See bug 78037.

Links opened from JavaScript via window.open() are covered by bug 64560.

I'm marking this bug as a dupe of bug 78037 because that bug is the more general
one (it depends on bug 64560) and your description is quite general, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78037 ***