[Javascript] Opening new tabs in FireFox.
Paul Novitski
paul at novitskisoftware.com
Fri Feb 17 10:48:07 CST 2006
At 03:19 AM 2/17/2006, Shawn Milo wrote:
>To anyone's knowledge, is there any JS yet which can open a URL in a new tab?
I've looked for an answer to this, too, but as far as I've been able
to discover, window.open() is the only way to do it. Whether this
opens a new browser window or a new tab is controlled by user
settings within Firefox. As I understand it, this evidences a very
conscious design philosophy common in the web standards community
which suggests, for example, that we developers not attempt to
override the user's tab/window settings but to allow the user to
control that level of usability.
A couple of links on the new tab/new window technology:
Open external links in new windows or tabs
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#beh_reuse
Firefox hacks: Tip 1: Modify tabbed browsing
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10165_7-6212515-1.html
I got 910,000 hits by googling
firefox javascript open new tab
Cheers,
Paul
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