Mrs Redboots wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 25 Jan 2005:


What was actually winding me up, though, was not on-load popups, which
Firefox suppresses very effectively, but target-new links - where you
click on a link and it gives you the target in a new window. This is
completely and utterly wrong, worthless, irritating, unusable, evil, bad,
selfish and generally not on behaviour.

Oh, I disagree - there are lots of times I want a link to open in a new
window - or a new tab, in Firefox - and it doesn't, and then I swear
because I've lost the page I was originally looking at! I'd far rather
that was the default.....

Annabel, if you download the powerful Tab Browser Extensions from
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en then you can
set this amongst a huge host of other preferences to do with how your
tabs and windows work. For example, you can specify that *all* links
open in a new tab, or just links to an external site.

Or is this just me?

As far as I'm concerned, I'm afraid it is! But each to his or her
own....

The beauty of Firefox et al is that extensions are available to
customise to this whole bizarre range of browsing preferences...
personally I sit in the middle and like to pick and choose what I open
in a new window - but I certainly don't want things forcing themselves
into one.

--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London