Flashes of Panic

I’ve long been annoyed by websites which insist on opening links outside the site in new windows. If I want to keep your page up, I fume to myself, I’ll open the link in a new tab.

But in the new Firefox (or at least the build I have) if a site attempts to open a link in a new window using the “target=’new’” strategy, the browser automatically opens it in a new tab instead. (New windows opened with Javascript are unaffected.) How ever-so-useful.

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