334595 - There's no way to turn off tabbed browsing!

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Lynn Gold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I use large screens.  When I Command-click I want my browser to open a new window.  I can't look at windows side-by-side or have multiple windows visible at once with tabbed browsing and HATE it HATE it HATE it.

There should be an option for folks like me to be able to turn off this "feature."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Type Command-click on a link.
3. Instead of opening a new window, the new link appears in a new tab and you can't look at both pages at the same time.

Actual Results:  
1. Start Firefox.
2. Type Command-click on a link.
3. Instead of opening a new window, the new link appears in a new tab and you can't look at both pages at the same time.

I used to be able to get new windows to appear with Mozilla and still can in the Windows version of Firefox.


Expected Results:  
1. Start Firefox.
2. Type Command-click on a link.
3. Since I haven't expressed a preference for tabbed browsing, the new link appears in a new WINDOW.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Help > Firefox Help > Mouse shortcuts in my copy of Firefox says to use Shift+click to open a new window. Does that not work for you?