I love FireFox, Long before i switched from Windows to "linux" I was using FireFox. I love the embedded tabbing, the customizable of the web browser, along with lots of other things. My problem lies within the tabbed browsing. After switching over from Open SUSE to Kubuntu, Firefox insists on opening a new window. I hate this...I have to right click and manually select the Open link in new tab preference. I have gone to "Edit>Preferences>Tabsto fix this issue, but that didn't work...It still opens links in a new window...is there something else i need to do to configure this option?

What action causes Firefox to open a new window (when you want a new tab)? Please give a precise example.

I whant a new tab to open every single time I click a link, like lets say I "Googled" google, then i want to open the first link Google
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I want to be able to open each of these links in thier own tab, not new window
or even the same window/tab as I am currently using.

Middlemousebutton click, or control+leftmousebuttonclick.

Not what i am looking for...I configured Firefox before so every time I opened a link with a left mouse click, the link would open in a new tab, not a new window...I am not looking for extra mouse clicks...i am looking for shortcuts...if trying to open the link in a new tab was all i was concerned with i would just keep right clicking the link and scrolling down to "Open Link in new Tab". This is not what i want. I whant FireFox to remember that my perfered method of opening links is in a new tab. I don't want to have to add extra work to open each and evey single link i click on to open in a tab. I spend a lot of time Googleing and surfing, so i have a lot of web pages open, plus i have 2 to 3 other open applications. so when i get so many simular applications they group on the task bar. this gets me lost becasue i don't remember the name of the page I was looking at. When every thing is opened in Tab, I can fallow the tabs becasue i know the order in which i opened them in.

If you go to Edit->Preferences->Tabs and selected "New pages should be opened in a new tab" and restart your browser, then when you click on a link that tries to open in a new window, it should open in a new tab. If you want regular links to just go on the next tab, you can use middleclick (one button) or ctrl+leftclick. Maybe an extention that does that is something you're looking for?

You give Google as a example, did you also adjust your Google preferences?

May I ask, What version of firefox you are using?
I have faced different problems with firefox old versions

By the way, Please do take a look at your google perferences, the bottom of the page.

And did you try Opera?

I used google as a referance only, as far as going to Edit>Prefrances>Tabs> I selected Open a new Page in new Tab...this didn't work, as mentioned earlier on in the post. I am using the latest and greates version of FireFox V2.0.3, or somthing like that. and yes I have used opera...loved it and hated it...my laptop doesn't like opera...never has even before i started using Linux, Opera would hang up when I used the laptop.

check this Link and see if it helps

I don't know if there's a nice way to change this setting via the preferences, but I guessed and found this method:

In the address bar, enter about:config and then find and change the value of the setting browser.link.open_newwindow to 3.

For me this doesn't quite do what I want... it switches to the new tab immediately, whereas I would prefer the tab to load in the background. If someone finds how to change this, that would be nice to know. BTW, thanks AGazzaz for the test link.

The "tab mix plus" add-on is very helpful. Can't live without it.

Supports "undo close tab" and a "closed tab list" and session management and several other things.

Those two features are a part of vanilla firefox - there's no need to install a separate extension if that's all you need. The session management is beyond vanilla firefox, though.

What does middle click (on a link) do?

It opens a the link in a new tab in the background

for example you have 5 links and you want to view them without loosing your curent page so you will middle click on those 5 links and they will open in new tabs and you will continue viewing the current page