[Users] Opening link in Firefox

[Tom Ashley]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:17:02 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have Claws Mail 3.7.1.0 and Firefox 9.0 on Fedora 16, x86_64, both
> installed from the repositories. I have used both for many years,
> although I switched to Claws Mail from Sylpheed only a couple years
> ago.
> 
> It used to be that when I clicked on a link in an e-mail it would open
> the link in a new tab in Firefox. Now it opens the link in the most
> recently used tab in Firefox, even if that tab is being used for
> another web page. This means that I have to use the back arrow to get
> back the previous page that was in that tab, open a new, blank tab,
> then go back to Claws Mail and click on the link again (or copy and
> paste) in order to get the link in the new tab.
> 
> I don't know if the problem is in Claws Mail or in Firefox. I want to
> restore the previous action where Claws Mail would always open a new
> tab before opening the link. Does anyone know where to start
> looking for how to do this?
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This worked for me:

Open about:config in browser (firefox) and find this key:
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground.  Change setting to true.  Now
when clicking email link, browser window should open in new tab in
browser's existing workspace.

HTH

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Tom Ashley