asqueella wrote:It's like saying "let's remove popup blocker, good guys don't do popups"
The popup blocker hasn't worked for me in ages... I honestly think it doesn't work anymore
asqueella wrote:It's like saying "let's remove popup blocker, good guys don't do popups".
asqueella wrote:I think zeniko makes excellent points, but trying to persuade Firefox devs once they settled on their decision is no fun.
Cusser wrote:asqueella wrote:It's like saying "let's remove popup blocker, good guys don't do popups".
I don't recall seeing target="_blank" abuse that wasn't forum-based in a long time.
asqueella wrote:New tab options simplify the UI at the expense of being "technically worse", just like the simplified JS options.
JonHa wrote:There is another problem with removing the UI for this pref: Users who ignored target="_blank" with the old UI in 1.5.x will have no ability to to restore the default behaviour. This would be then a similar problem like the xpinstall.enabled-bug.
JonHa wrote:I suppose many of the developers does not get the serioisness of this problem because they have set this pref in their profile once and they do not realize that the default behaviour is another and that most of the users don't know about about:config.
sunnyhil wrote:Hi,
<b>Strongly suggest V2.0 keep the option "force in same tab"</b>
But in the firefox version 2.0 beta, the option "Force links that open new windows to open in the same tab/window as the link" was unfortunately removed.