279299 - Pref to allow links to open as tabs as the default

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 227241

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Stehlik]

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

I'm a big fan of the Opera method of handling tabs and hope Firefox could handle
them the same way. Specifically, I would like a preference that allows me to set
the default action of clicking a link to open it as a tab and not as a new
window. I don't want to remember to drag a link anywhere. I find tabs make
browsing with multiple windows open much easier and more managable for me. I
would also like this preference to extend to any windows that are automatically
opened (pop-ups and the like). 

So basically, I want the option to tell Firefox to open everything as a tab and
nothing as a new window unless I explicitly tell it otherwise. 

Thanks a bunch

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please always search before you file a bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227241 ***