Force Mozilla to open external pages in the same tab

Nov 19, '02 08:18:21AM

Contributed by: soob

I love Mozilla's (and it's kin) ability for tabbed browsing. What I really miss is the ability to load externally requested pages in a new tab rather than opening a new window. Chimera offers this ability, and I love Chimera but because of some proxy irregularities, it's more cumbersome to use than Mozilla (which isn't much better for changing proxy configs).

However, browsing the Chimera prefs.js file I noticed a particular user_pref line:

  user_pref("browser.always_reuse_window", true);
I added that line to my Mozilla:user.js file (in the same directory as the prefs.js file, ~/Library -> Mozilla -> Profiles -> Username -> [random].slt), restarted Mozilla and woila! External requests now load in the active tab. Mozilla doesn't create a new tab but hey, at least it doesn't create a new window!

Now if I could only figure out what the setting for opening a new tab with an external request is instead, I'd be in hog heaven!

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