I was having an issue recently with my FireFox browser related to pop-ups. If you use a WYSIWYG editor with pop-up editor windows, or you want to stream on Stickam, you need to open those windows separately from your browser. For some reason, FireFox found it necessary to open these windows in a new tab.
I don’t know what started this problem, but I did figure out a solution. Since I am using Windows 7, the links below may not look like yours.
- Open windows explorer.
- Navigate to your FireFox Profiles folder. Mine was:
C:Users[username]AppDataRoamingMozillaFirefoxProfilesumbvzbnq.default - In this folder, open prefs.js in notepad or other plain text editor.
- Search for “browser.link.open_newwindow” in this file.
In performing the above search, I only found one entry, user_pref(“browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction”, 0);
Now the above entry means that all links will be opened in your browser according to the setting for “browser.link.open_newwindow“. This also means that all links will follow this rule. I don’t want ALL links to follow this rule, therefore…
- Delete this line in your file.
- Close your FireFox browser completely.
- Save this file.
- Open your browser again.
Now your browser will behave as it did when you first installed it.
Once I restarted the browser, I was back to the way I wanted things to be.
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