User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3 In 1.5.0.4, a UI pref existed whereby the user could force [webpage links (within Firefox) that would open in new windows] to open in the current tab. Alpha 3 effectively removes this. In Alpha 3, the only relevant pref is the following: | Open links that would open new windows in: | o new windows | o new tabs in the most recent window I feel this is a bad move, since, even though there is a benefit in reducing the number of UI prefs, the removed pref is an important one, to the extent that, IMO, its removal is not justified by the aforementioned benefit. I feel this pref should be reinstated. I propose the following as a replacement: | Open **webpage** links that would open new windows in: | o new windows | o new tabs | o the same tab as the link | | Open links **from other applications** that would open new windows in: | o new windows | o new tabs in the most recent window Reproducible: Always

That is decided per Bug 308396. But you still can set the pref browser.link.open_newwindow in about:config to 1 in order to get this behaviour.

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I don't see anything in bug 308396 about removing the "same tab" option. What I do see is bug 264395 saying this pref broke a lot of sites in ways that didn't make it obvious that the "same tab" option was the problem.

(In reply to comment #3) > I thought https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308396#c10

The UI was changed between 1.9a1_2006012013 and 1.9a1_2006012021 and when I do a bonsai query, the checkins in that time span contain Bug 308396 which I consider the most likely one.

Sure, but I was hoping to find a mention of *why* it was removed in that bug.

Beltzner made it clear in a dev-apps-firefox post that this was intentional. http://groups.google.ca/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/7e558f7d9ab7e184/e9fd67e69097a37e#e9fd67e69097a37e

This is an often-harmful pref, and has implications that are not easily understood by users. The decision was made to not expose a potentially harmful behaviour to all users, despite the fact that some people do want this behaviour. See bug 264395 for more details on the problems with that behaviour.

*** Bug 364736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 364856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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