Hi, Firefox doesn't. You need to right click > Open link in New Tab. Or, click the mouse wheel. Or, hold down Ctrl when you left click.

There are also Add-ons such as Tab Mix Plus, or for bookmarks only, try Open Bookmarks in New Tab.

Hope that helps.

Just noticed that it does open a new tab when clicking on a url in a thunderbird email.

Scribe_uk said

Hi, Firefox doesn't. You need to right click > Open link in New Tab. Or, click the mouse wheel. Or, hold down Ctrl when you left click. There are also Add-ons such as Tab Mix Plus, or for bookmarks only, try Open Bookmarks in New Tab. Hope that helps.

Huh? It has for years! Maybe it's an add on I lost?

Tried Tab Mix Plus, it works but looks odd, wish I could recover the old add on I was using, maybe it doesn't work for 36?

You can check some prefs on the about:config page.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow
• 1: current tab; 2:new window; 3:new tab;

For links opened via JavaScript you can look at this pref:

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