Configure Firefox to open popups as new tabs

Summary

Configure Firefox to open TDX popups in tabs instead.

Body

Popup windows in web applications can disrupt some people's workflows and generally be a bad experience. If the user has FireFox, they can configure it to open a new tab instead of a popup.

Instructions

  1. Open a new tab and go to about:config
  2. search for the option "browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction"
  3. click the edit  button and change it to 0

 

Environment

 

  • FireFox web browser

 

Details

Details

Article ID: 139113
Created
Wed 3/29/23 11:28 AM
Modified
Fri 3/31/23 11:06 AM
Applies To
Students
Faculty
Staff