Feature request: Disable tabs (tabbed browsing) altogether

Bug #1070540 reported by Shahar Or
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Mozilla Firefox
Confirmed
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firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Dear friends,

I'd like to see the feature to disable tabs altogether.

I like my window manager and I want it to handle all my different open apps, documents and sites. Offloading this job to a single app, which is what tabs are, is counter-productive for me.

But Firefox doesn't have the feature to disable tabbed browsing.

Thanks,
Shahar

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In , Jamie Zawinski (jwz) wrote :

I want Firefox to never use tabs, ever. Whenever a new window is requested (e.g., middle-click) I want it to open in a new window instead of a tab.

"Preferences / New pages should open in / A new window" is insufficient. Middle-click and option-click still open the link in a new tab.

This doesn't fix it either. It used to:
user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", false);

This broke sometime between 1.0 and 2.0.0.5. It is still broken in 3.0.

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In , Elmar-ludwig (elmar-ludwig) wrote :

> user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", false);

This works fine for me on Linux in Firefox 3. I can't test this on Mac.

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In , B61oj4-robin-jl8qkq (b61oj4-robin-jl8qkq) wrote :

user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick", false) works fine on Fx3.0.1 Mac. It obviously don't kill the tab system completely though and you can still open them with option-click.

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In , Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote :

I've reported this downstream Ubuntu before coming upon this report. Here's what I wrote there, in bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1070540

"
Dear friends,

I'd like to see the feature to disable tabs altogether.

I like my window manager and I want it to handle all my different open apps, documents and sites. Offloading this job to a single app, which is what tabs are, is counter-productive for me.

But Firefox doesn't have the feature to disable tabbed browsing.

Thanks,
Shahar
"

I really hope that this can get a certain status because desktops are still in use and some people may use this "feature".

Technically, this isn't a freature request, perhaps, because it is more like a bug that I can't turn off a certain freature, however helpful it seems to the vast majority of the users.

Thanks,
Shahar

Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in firefox:
importance: Medium → Unknown
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