From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 BuildID: 2001090110 I would like a feature to open a link in a new browser window, instead of the same window. Well, after thinking about something easy to do, like IE one - Shift Lclick, i got a new idea - What about holding the right button (the popup will pop only after relase...), then clicking the left one, and relase the right one? It's allmost the easiest way exists, even without keyboard or a popup at all.

Bogus. Just use ctrl-click. (Shift-click has *always* been save-link since the early days of mosaic).

On Unix we click on the middle button to do this.

I'm marking this one INVALID since there's a perfectly acceptable way of doing this already (ctrl-click).

Sorry, I resolved it as fixed by misstake. Reopening so I can correctly mark it as INVALID. Sorry for spam.

Marking WORKSFORME as suggested on #mozillazine.

Tomer: Though Andre mentioned that middle-click is available in Unix to open new windows, that also works in win32. What you describe, though, sounds a bit like mouse gestures. So, you may also be interested in bug 76537.

There is a pref for this. To have a Unix-style middle mouse button opens link in new window just add user_pref("middlemouse.openNewWindow", true); to prefs.js

Diego: It's my understanding that middle-mouse-new-window is the default behavior on win32.. For instance, I have a fresh profile, and middle-mouse works well, even though I haven't set a pref for it :).

Alex: You are right. I was not aware of this. I found this pref on the customizing mozilla page, put it into prefs.js and was overjoyed to have middle button working as under Unix. In fact I noticed today that the pref was missing from my profile and wondered why it worked nevertheless... So now that everybody has been educated I think it is safe to verify this bug that never was.