hello Rincewindwiz, please try this: enter about:config into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.link.open_newwindow - right-click and reset this entry to the default value (3) and restart firefox afterwards.

when preferences don't stick after a restart of firefox it might be different issue, check this article for some common troubleshooting steps: How to fix preferences that won't save

good plan but . . . . It had been set to 1 Right click->reset changed it to 3 I restarted firefox (home page) I clicked a link in outlook and it promptly opened in my FF home page

I'll look at the preferences link.

Thanks

For links opened via an external program you can use this pref to override the browser.link.open_newwindow pref if this pref doesn't have the default value -1.

• browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external

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

Ahha - that's fixed it. Thanks

Whooops not so fast. It seems something is changing it back again. Is there anyway of finding out what is changing it short of doing a reset and then adding the addins one at a time?

If you do not keep changes after a restart then see:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

If it does work properly in Firefox Safe-mode then disable all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.

Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

I was afraid that was the case. Thanks for your help