I used to be able to go to another window by clicking on a subject in the search engine
Whether I was in the standard Firefox search window, or Google, or DuckDuckGo (my preferred choice), I was able to click on a specific topic in the search window and have it automatically open a new window within the Firefox window settings. I can no longer do this with Firefox 100.
Please fix!
Modified by George
Chosen solution
As cor-el mentioned, the first step is to set your search engine to target result links to a new window.
For Google:
https://www.google.com/preferences
Where results open Open each selected result in a new browser window
For DuckDuckGo:
https://duckduckgo.com/settings
Open Links in a New Tab Opens results in new windows/tabs
Note that these preferences/settings are stored in a cookie and if you use private windows or clear cookies often, most likely you will need to set them again in the future.
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For Google you do this via the Google Search Settings page (open results in a new tab; Firefox would divert the new window to a new tab). I assume that DDG has a similar setting for where to show the search results. Otherwise you can always hold the Ctrl key or middle-click a result (link) to open the page in a new tab/window.
Related prefs on the about:config page you can look at: Normal Links:
- browser.link.open_newwindow
1:current tab; 2:new window; 3:new tab;
JavaScript Links:
- browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
0:divert always; 1:divert never; 2:divert no features
Chosen Solution
As cor-el mentioned, the first step is to set your search engine to target result links to a new window.
For Google:
https://www.google.com/preferences
Where results open Open each selected result in a new browser window
For DuckDuckGo:
https://duckduckgo.com/settings
Open Links in a New Tab Opens results in new windows/tabs
Note that these preferences/settings are stored in a cookie and if you use private windows or clear cookies often, most likely you will need to set them again in the future.