[vox-tech] a firefox question

[Matt Roper]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:01:50AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
> These have been some interesting discussions about FireFox.  One thing 
> Pete originally complained about that hasn't been discussed is the 
> opening of new windows when you would rather they would go to another 
> tab.  This often frustrates me as well.  From what I can tell, this 
> occurs when some java happy web designer wraps a link with javascript to 
> open a new window.  Left-clicking on these links opens the content in a 
> new window, as expected.  Middle-clicking on the link opens a blank tab 
> with the javascript in the location bar.  Since java code is not a valid 
> location, nothing opens.  I hope this gets fixed in future versions.

I believe the Tab-Mix plugin
(http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/tabmix/tabmix.html.en) will solve this
problem.  It also adds several other useful options for configuring tab
behavior.


Matt

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