Right-click and select Open In New Window.

Are you overriding how links open if you left-click and divert all these links to a new tab?

Note that you can easisly open a link in a new tab with a middle-click with the mouse scroll wheel. Additionally holding shift toggles opening in the background. If you use an extension then it is a lot more difficult to change how a link opens.

Se also:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow
• 1: current tab; 2:new window; 3:new tab;

For links opened via JavaScript you can look at this pref:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

Thanks for all the help but I am trying to find out how to open a new link in the same tab.

LeeU said

Thanks for all the help but I am trying to find out how to open a new link in the same tab.

You may have overlooked it, but cor-el mentioned this pref setting :

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

(which means : current tab)

All that does is open the link in a new tab.

How about changing this pref in about:config  :

browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

and set its value to 0 (zero)

But : When you click on a link and don't hold Ctrl, the link will open in the same tab .........

Also see : https://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/03/force-firefox-to-open-links-in-same-tab/

Mine is already like that, for both of them. Remember, I have told Tab Mix Plus to open all links in a new tab. What I am trying to find is a way to bypass that command, e.g., In a regular session, when you hold down CTRL the link opens in a new tab. I am looking for is something like that to open the link in the same tab.

LeeU said

when you hold down CTRL the link opens in a new tab. I am looking for is something like that to open the link in the same tab.

I said : " When you click on a link and don't hold Ctrl, the link will open in the same tab ......... "

Like I wrote above, if you use an extension to open all links by default in a new tab then you can't override this unless TMP has this also as a feature. You would have to disable this feature in TMP and use the normal methods to open links in a new tab (middle-click or hold CTRL and left-click).

@cor-el: That's all I really wanted to know. I appreciate it. (And I guess I missed it above, my fault.)