281018 - The "Force links that open new windows to open in:" option is not there.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 268045

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Kurt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

From your help menu...

Force links that open new windows to open in:
Firefox opens new windows from links when web pages request them. If you prefer
to use tabs as you browse, this behavior may be counterproductive. You can force
Firefox to open links that would normally be opened in new windows to be opened
elsewhere. To do so, select the checkbox for this optionpreference and choose
the behavior you desire.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to tools, options, advanced
2. look for "Force links that open new windows to open in:"
3. not available

Actual Results:  
The option listed in the help menu is not available. I just wanted links on a
web page I am viewing to open in a tab, not a new window. Could not choose that
option.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

From http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.html:

To make these experimental options appear, set
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config.

It was a bug in Firefox 1.0 that these options appeared in Help.

Comment 2

[Kurt]

(In reply to comment #1)
> From http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.html:
> 
> To make these experimental options appear, set
> browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config.
> 
> It was a bug in Firefox 1.0 that these options appeared in Help.

I'm sort of new to this and I missed your thought train. In "all.js" I see...



// xxxbsmedberg more toolkit prefs?

// Tab browser preferences.

pref("browser.tabs.autoHide", true);

pref("browser.tabs.forceHide", false);

pref("browser.tabs.loadInBackground", false);

pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", false);

pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.urlbar", false);

pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.windowopen", false);

pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.bookmarks", false);

pref("browser.tabs.warnOnClose", true);

// 0 = append, 1 = replace

pref("browser.tabs.loadGroup", 1);



// lets new tab/window load something different than first window

// -1 - use navigator startup preference

//  0 - loads blank page

//  1 - loads home page

//  2 - loads last page visited

pref("browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab", 0);

pref("browser.windows.loadOnNewWindow", 1);



// link handling in tabbed browsers. values from nsIBrowserDOMWindow.

pref("browser.link.open_external", 1);

pref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 2);

pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.ui", 3); // prefs UI version

pref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 0); // values from GlobalWindow

... do I need to alter something here? I am new to bugzilla and this is not a
major issue so I hope I am not bothering you. Thanx.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Kurt, these options were experimental in Firefox 1.0.x and they shouldn't have
appeared in help. The fact you saw it in help is a bug.

However in current builds (and in Firefox 1.1) the issues with single window
mode were sorted out and now the prefs are visible in Options window. You can
check it yourself:
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/>.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268045 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change