Closed Bug 465922 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Can't get lnks to urls to open in a new window

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: rp, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12 Links from search engine search results open in same window, and there is no option in Preferences to make them open in a new window or tab Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.do search on Google 2.click on any search result url 3. Actual Results: link opens in same window
A left click on a link on Google search results pages always open in the same window, in any browser. You can do a middle click, Right click - Open Link in... or use a bookmarklet to override the page's code. You are using an old browser, it's better to use the latest.
If you go to the Google homepage, click on Preferences, is there a check mark in the box "Open search results in a new browser window"?
Component: General → Search
QA Contact: general → search
The option "Open search results in a new browser window" is not there any more. I'm now on v 1.5.0.12.
Here you can see that the option is present, tested with the latest Firefox version (Firefox 3) and a new profile on Windows XP: http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=searchro5.png
(In reply to comment #2) > If you go to the Google homepage, click on Preferences, is there a check mark > in the box "Open search results in a new browser window"? Quite right. I have checked [ticked] that box and it now works as before, opening links in a new window. Much appreciated.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
(In reply to comment #4) > Here you can see that the option is present, tested with the latest Firefox > version (Firefox 3) and a new profile on Windows XP: > http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=searchro5.png I have Apple OS 10.4.11, so we have a different version.
(marking INVALID, because this wasn't a flaw in Firefox)
Resolution: FIXED → INVALID
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