285844 - Middle-click should open a new tab in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273058

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

Like in SM
I know that  they are 2 separated application but it should be very nice...
maybe by modifying an option in TB and FF.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
open middle-clicked links in a new tab if the browser is tab compatible

Comment 1

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

This should be more powerful for new user to who we try to convert to tab use :
the same way in all mozilla app for doing something.

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

Reporter,

This can be done by doing the following in Firefox:

Click Tools
Click Options
Click the "Tabs" option
Click "Force links that open new windows to open in:"
Click "a new Tab"

This should solve your problem.  Please mark the bug resolved - invalid.

Regards

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I don't think this is invalid. One might want to have a new window opened by
default in Firefox, but a new tab, when middle-clicking from TB. Or (like me)
leave Firefox unfocused when middle-clicking in TB, but focus it when calling
from other applications or on left-click.

The point of this bug was either about better integration between the two apps
or the consistence. Either way, it's a duplicate. See bug 270434 and bug 273058.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273058 ***

Comment 4

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

"One might want to have a new window opened by default in Firefox, but a new
tab, when middle-clicking from TB."

that's what I need ! thanks !