Re: getting control of tabbed browsing

From: Temlakos (temlakos_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:57:20 -0500
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    Gustavo Seabra wrote:
    > 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

    I just tried that, and it works. Of course, I also tried the earlier
    solution in addition--that is, changing
    browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true, and then changing the
    single-window preferences to open any windows from an external
    application to a new tab. But then I changed to /usr/bin (working under
    "su"), typed "gedit firefox" (I imagine that "vi" would do just as well)
    and then removed the single occurrence of ", new-window" in the file.
    Now, whenever I hit a link in a T-bird message, it opens the link in a
    new tab in the most recently used window--which usually is the only
    window I have open.

    Thanks for that link. I highly recommend this solution to everyone who
    at least wants to exploit tabbed browsing and stop the repeated opening
    of new windows.

    Temlakos 

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