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Bug 358075 - Open target='_blank_' links in new tab
Open target='_blank_' links in new tab
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 337725
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Tabs
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-28 02:09 UTC by Steve Bergman
Modified: 2008-12-30 23:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Steve Bergman 2006-09-28 02:09:40 UTC 
I would like to see an options, or perhaps even default behavior, of opening links with target='_blank' in new tab.  To be clear, I understand that opening popups in a new tab is inadvisable and am *not* requesting that.


My rationale:

Tabbed browsing can be more organized than nontabbed, but not when you end up with multiple windows with multiple tabs in those multiple windows.

Firefox introduced an option to do this in 1.0.x.  In 1.5, they were confident enough to make it a full-fledged edit->preferences option.

In FF 2.0rc1 (the current version as I type this) opening target='_blank' in a new tab is the *default* behavior.  Considering FF's user base, I'd say it's gotten some good testing.

My understanding is that back in 2004, Gecko did not support the features you needed to distinguish between _blank and javascript popups.

I hope that this situation has changed and that this feature is now feasible.

Thanks,
Steve Bergman
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-09-28 13:26:25 UTC 
This bug is actually a duplicate of bug 115134 which is WONTFIX.

However, if there is a way now, like you suggest, to reliably detect _blank targets, it may be worth reopening that one.
Comment 2 Brendan Martens 2006-09-28 14:48:55 UTC 
I would also love to see this implemented. I have become accustomed to this behavior and see no reason that it should not be an option in Epiphany. I hope that it can be done. Thank you developers for all your good work on Epiphany!
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-09-29 21:55:26 UTC 
*** Bug 358321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-01-15 12:24:44 UTC 
This is basically the same RFE as bug 337725, marking DUPLICATE.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 337725 ***