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Make Firefox open new windows as new tabs BUT open JavaScript popups as popups

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Mar 15, 20264028 views
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It's happened again: Firefox started letting new windows open as new windows and not capturing them in tabs instead. So of course JavaScript popups work properly, but my tab preferences are not correct. Open those new pages in tabs, always, please. This happened before. And I fixed it with an about…

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Fix for: Make Firefox open new windows as new tabs BUT open JavaScript popups as popups

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Setting browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 2 might fix the problem: 2 : Divert all links according to browser.link.open_newwindow, unless the new window specifies how it should be displayed.

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