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Suddenly firefox view page source is opening in seperate tab instead of seperate window

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Yesterday view page source is opening is seperate window but suddenly today view page source is opening in seperate tab which causes some major changes in my development.

I want to get back to previous thing(View page should open in seperate window again).

How could i get back to this changes again?

Yesterday view page source is opening is seperate window but suddenly today view page source is opening in seperate tab which causes some major changes in my development. I want to get back to previous thing(View page should open in seperate window again). How could i get back to this changes again?

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Enter about:config in the address bar, accept the warning, find the line view_source.tab and change the value from true to false. Close the about:config tab, that's it!