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opening a link in my current window

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How do I open an outside link onto my current window? It keeps opening a new window so I end up with a lot of windows open. I just want the link to open in whatever window I'm working on. It used to do that and now it won't.

How do I open an outside link onto my current window? It keeps opening a new window so I end up with a lot of windows open. I just want the link to open in whatever window I'm working on. It used to do that and now it won't.

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Hi   ! Would you give this a try please :

Type in the adress bar   about:config   (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked) Type and look for the preference : browser.link.open_newwindow and set its preference to   1   (one)

Does that do the trick  ?

If not, would you please take a look at these articles :

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

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Hi   ! Would you give this a try please :

Type in the adress bar   about:config   (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked) Type and look for the preference : browser.link.open_newwindow and set its preference to   1   (one)

Does that do the trick  ?

If not, would you please take a look at these articles :

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

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It worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you.