getting control of tabbed browsing

[Temlakos]

Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:14:23 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:52:59 -0500, Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>Ben: Wow, those are some serious warnings on his website. I loaded it up
>>>>- so far, so good. I went through the prefs and only changed a couple of
>>>>things. He seems to default to forced single window, just what I wanted.
>>>>Thanks for the tip. I just clicked on a link from an email message in
>>>>Thunderbird and it opened the link in a new tab in the currently open
>>>>window - perfect.
>>>
>>>There is a simpler way to do this. Type about:config into the address
>>>bar, and set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true. This
>>>makes the Single window Mode option show up in the advanced section.
>>>This will not give you the fancier features such as scroll wheel tab
>>>switching and things like that.
>>
>>That sounded great to me, and I've always really wanted this to work,
>>so I tried it.
>>
>>Same as always. No matter what I set in Firefox's advanced section,
>>links in TBird ALWAYS open in a new Firefox window.
>>
>>Do other people seriously have this working (without the
>>above-mentioned extension)? I'm using the FC3 packages, nothing
>>special or custom, but no matter what I do, links from TBird never
>>start a new tab in the existing FF window.
>>
> 
> 
> It seems like an old problem that should have been solved at this
> point. Take a look at:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=110429781629755&w=2

I just tried that, and it works. Of course, I also tried the earlier 
solution in addition--that is, changing 
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true, and then changing the 
single-window preferences to open any windows from an external 
application to a new tab. But then I changed to /usr/bin (working under 
"su"), typed "gedit firefox" (I imagine that "vi" would do just as well) 
and then removed the single occurrence of ", new-window" in the file. 
Now, whenever I hit a link in a T-bird message, it opens the link in a 
new tab in the most recently used window--which usually is the only 
window I have open.

Thanks for that link. I highly recommend this solution to everyone who 
at least wants to exploit tabbed browsing and stop the repeated opening 
of new windows.

Temlakos