Does anyone know how to make firefox open a link in a new window (Except for right clicking and choosing it) cos i'm getting sick too death of people posting links that I follow that get quite interesting and then I end up having to navigate all the way back....

Also while on the subject of firefox...does anyone know how to select a different user profile if I haven't ticked the radio box in the past that asks you every time...???

Cheers in advance...:thumbsup:

If you have a mouse with a clickable scroll wheel, click a link with that, and it will open in a new tab.

Or -

CTRL+click will open in a new tab
SHIFT+click will open in a new window

I wasn't away of the click-wheel thing - that sounds good as I currently do the right-click, new tab thing.

Originally posted by ncrossland
CTRL+click will open in a new tab
SHIFT+click will open in a new window

So it does, cheers mate...any idea with the profiles...?

Originally posted by hotphil
I wasn't away of the click-wheel thing - that sounds good as I currently do the right-click, new tab thing.

On my laptop, which doesn't have scroll wheel / middle button, if you click both right and left simultaneously, it has the same effect. It doesn't seem to work on my desktop machine though.

Originally posted by BobDaBuilder
So it does, cheers mate...any idea with the profiles...?

Not quite sure what the problem is excatly, but this page might help:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

Originally posted by ncrossland
Not quite sure what the problem is excatly, but this page might help:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

You're quite a breath of fresh air aint ya...Thanks again :thumbsup:

I want two profiles cos me and my missus both use the same machine (Until Friday) and we have different bookmarks and having them both on the same profile takes up 1/2 the browser window...lol

One thing that annoyed me when trying Firefox was that links on websites designed to open in a new window (i.e. with target="_blank" in the html) opened literally in a new window when using left click, and not in a new tab. For me, this kind of defeats the object of tabbed browsing. In Avant Browser, these type of links are simply opened in a new tab. Why would Firefox need new windows/instances anyway when it has tabbed browsing?

Originally posted by t020
One thing that annoyed me when trying Firefox was that links on websites designed to open in a new window (i.e. with target="_blank" in the html) opened literally in a new window when using left click, and not in a new tab. For me, this kind of defeats the object of tabbed browsing. In Avant Browser, these type of links are simply opened in a new tab. Why would Firefox need new windows/instances anyway when it has tabbed browsing?

It's a side effect of Firefox being standards compliant! The W3C HTML specs say that target="_blank" has a special meaning:

The user agent should load the designated document in a new, unnamed window

(my emphasis)

It would be a bit hypocritical to advertise as being standard compliant, and then selectively ignore parts of the standards you didn't like!

There is an extension that will change this functionality in Firefox though.

Originally posted by ncrossland

There is an extension that will change this functionality in Firefox though.

Cool, do you have a URL?

http://www.spuler.us/extensions/singlewindow.htm

Originally posted by ncrossland
http://www.spuler.us/extensions/singlewindow.htm

Many thanks. :)

opera is very smilar to firefox, except it is much better. use this instead. www.opera.com

Originally posted by tom_a_west
opera is very smilar to firefox, except it is much better. use this instead. www.opera.com

Opera is only free if you put up with a large and annoying banner ad at the top right of the browser window.

I have posted a few tips to optimise Firefox in the tips&tricks section Here (http://xthost.info/vidster9/HTML/index.html)

They worked a treat for me, let me know if they work for you :thumbsup:

There's also this (http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm) which is ann add on to optimise Firefox. Seems to work on the couple of machines I've tested it on.

Originally posted by Lurch
There's also this (http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm) which is ann add on to optimise Firefox. Seems to work on the couple of machines I've tested it on.

Looks good Lurch. I might try it tomorrow :thumbsup: