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Bug 658339 - No longer possible to have web browser open links in a new window
No longer possible to have web browser open links in a new window
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-06 09:45 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2011-09-06 10:23 UTC
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Description Sam Morris 2011-09-06 09:45:20 UTC 
Since GNOME 3 it is no longer possible to have GNOME open http/https links that I click in a new window. Opening links in a new tab is problematic, because usually when I click a link in Evolution on workspace 1, I have other web browser windows open on one or more different workspaces. I associate different workspaces with different tasks I'm performing, so I therefore having a new tab in a different workspace is not suitable, and I have to break my concentration to switch to that other workspace, break the tab out of the window it appeared in, and then move the newly-created window back to the workspace that requested the browser be opened.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-09-06 10:23:44 UTC 
Either the application should be providing this option for all the links (which makes a lot of sense), or you could create a new .desktop file which passes the correct argument to have things open in a new tab.

We will not be re-adding this, the preference was always on the wrong side of the fence.