Adam Hardy wrote: > I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never > about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in > Gnome: > > I want to click on a link in Thunderbird emails, and see the Firefox > browser pop up a new browser window in the foreground. > > Currently the link opens in an existing Firefox window AND in the > background, so I have to go looking for it and then work out whether > I want to go back to the page the browser window showed before. > > Could be simple, but could be impossible - anybody know?
Simple if you know exactly where to look. In Firefox, open the preferences (Edit->Preferences), select the "Advanced" tab, and click the "+" to the left of the "Tabbed Browsing" heading. This should open up the following set of radio buttons: Open links from other applications in: (o) a new window ( ) a new tab in the most recent window ( ) the most recent tab/window Sounds like you want the first of these options. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
