New tab needs to use the blank tab

dfoulkes · Post by **dfoulkes** » November 25th, 2018, 6:05 pm

I have my system set up to display a blank tab at startup (home page if you will) ..But when I click on a bookmark ( I have bookmarks set in the prefs file to open a new tab) ... the opening of that new tab ignores the fact that there is a blank tab to be used first but it opens up that bookmark in a new tab... know what I mean. This did not do that in my prior ESR 52 and it may be because I had TMP handling tabs.
I also started this profile and my Misc profile in safe-mode to check it out and it still happens.

And, I also started up my portable version of this ESR which started out clean..so, no junk in the prefs file from old extensions.

Any thoughts on this... or, do I just live with it.

jscher2000 · Post by **jscher2000** » November 25th, 2018, 10:13 pm

Are you saying: Firefox is following instructions by using a new tab, but it should make an exception when the current tab has a blank page and just replace it?

dfoulkes · Post by **dfoulkes** » November 26th, 2018, 8:42 am

Yep... before I upgraded to Quantum I had ESR52 ... I had TMP for handling many tab-functions with respect to various tab handling.... and I'll assume that that ext. took care of that. It was upgrading to version 63 that started my current issue. It's not a big problem... but a little tiring if you know what I mean.

Post by **RobertJ** » November 26th, 2018, 10:33 am

jscher2000 wrote:Are you saying: Firefox is following instructions by using a new tab, but it should make an exception when the current tab has a blank page and just replace it?

dfoulkes wrote:Yep...

The Dev's are working on that. It is called Firefox-AI

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dfoulkes · Post by **dfoulkes** » November 26th, 2018, 10:44 am

Hmmm... well it used to work fine in pre-Quantum. So much for improvements.

jscher2000 · Post by **jscher2000** » November 26th, 2018, 11:01 am

dfoulkes wrote:Hmmm... well it used to work fine in pre-Quantum.

Until recently, there was no preference to open bookmarks in a new tab. And you don't have to use it now. You can Ctrl+click (on mac, Command+click) a bookmark to direct it to a new tab, or "middle-click" it with the mouse scroll wheel.

dfoulkes · Post by **dfoulkes** » November 26th, 2018, 11:18 am

jscher2000 wrote: Until recently, there was no preference to open bookmarks in a new tab. And you don't have to use it now. You can Ctrl+click (on mac, Command+click) a bookmark to direct it to a new tab, or "middle-click" it with the mouse scroll wheel.

I guess it was TMP and I think that I had another bookmark/tab realted ext then.

I can live with the blank tab thing... I was just wondering.

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