Dave Arquati wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 25 Jan 2005:


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.

Thanks, Dave - in fact, this was not recommended by the Mozilla people,
so I downloaded their recommended one instead:
http://tinyurl.com/5w4qu

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.

Well, quite.
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