Re: getting control of tabbed browsing

From: Gustavo Seabra (gustavo.seabra_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:37:55 -0600
To: Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:14:23 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@gmail.com> wrote:
    > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:52:59 -0500, Billy Tallis <wtallis@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > > Ben: Wow, those are some serious warnings on his website. I loaded it up
    > > > - so far, so good. I went through the prefs and only changed a couple of
    > > > things. He seems to default to forced single window, just what I wanted.
    > > > Thanks for the tip. I just clicked on a link from an email message in
    > > > Thunderbird and it opened the link in a new tab in the currently open
    > > > window - perfect.
    > >
    > > There is a simpler way to do this. Type about:config into the address
    > > bar, and set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true. This
    > > makes the Single window Mode option show up in the advanced section.
    > > This will not give you the fancier features such as scroll wheel tab
    > > switching and things like that.
    >
    > That sounded great to me, and I've always really wanted this to work,
    > so I tried it.
    >
    > Same as always. No matter what I set in Firefox's advanced section,
    > links in TBird ALWAYS open in a new Firefox window.
    >
    > Do other people seriously have this working (without the
    > above-mentioned extension)? I'm using the FC3 packages, nothing
    > special or custom, but no matter what I do, links from TBird never
    > start a new tab in the existing FF window.
    >

    It seems like an old problem that should have been solved at this
    point. Take a look at:
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=110429781629755&w=2 

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