# I need help fixing Firefox 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 27, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149 "2011-03-27T15:21:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/1 "2011-03-27T15:21:22Z")
I hate to pester everyone here on the SDMB, but like lots of people, I’ve found I have a computer problem that I can’t solve by Googling, and I don’t want to register with random boards to search for an answer. The new update to Firefox is doing a real dumb thing – by default, when you click on a link embedded in a post such as this one, it opens another tab. I can click a check box in Options to get Firefox to open a new window instead. But I don’t want either of those results. I want to click a link and have the current window change to the new page. The way browsers have worked since I started browsing the web. Grrr. :mad: I’m aware that, if I want a link to open in a new tab, I can right click and select ( I’m also aware the Firefox 4 has switched the positions of new tab/new window in that dropdown menu – Thanks, so much FF Dev Team) but sometimes I just want to leave a page behind. A Google page works like that, any of those links works like I want, jumps to a new page. Maybe it’s the type of link, but Firefox used to work the way I described. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/2 "2011-03-27T15:32:26Z")
here: [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open\_newwindow](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow) type about:config in the address bar, find that preference, and set it to what behavior you want. that should work. I think setting it to “1” will do what you want. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/3 "2011-03-27T15:46:49Z")
it should be noted that some sites can force the new tab/window behaviour themselves in the HTML code being generated. as an example, **jz78817** ’s link is going to open in a new tab/window regardless of your browser settings, because of the Vbulletin settings. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/4 "2011-03-27T16:29:55Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > I don’t want to register with random boards to search for an answer. At [forums.mozillazine.org](http://forums.mozillazine.org) you don’t have to register to start a thread. I ask all of my Firefox and Thunderbird questions there. > [@fubbleskag](#): > > it should be noted that some sites can force the new tab/window behaviour themselves in the HTML code being generated. as an example, **jz78817** ’s link is going to open in a new tab/window regardless of your browser settings, because of the Vbulletin settings. Nope, changing the value to 1 does what the OP wants. Just make sure you go to _browser.link.open\_newwindow_ and not _browser.link.open\_newwindow.restriction_. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/5 "2011-03-27T18:19:58Z")
and away we go, type type type and testing … Ahhh, now that feels more like home. Maybe it wasn’t the default and I went and set up about:config once previously, I often take those sort of tips online. At any rate I know where to look for more help. I was so lost, yesterday and this morning that I didn’t even recall – What do I type? And where? To get get what I want? Now I’ll remember – about:config ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/6 "2011-04-01T10:44:21Z")
Me to… what happened to the drop down arrow next to the back button that allowed me to go back multiple pages rather than one at a time? ---
**Author:** ![BorgHunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/7 "2011-04-01T11:00:47Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > Me to… what happened to the drop down arrow next to the back button that allowed me to go back multiple pages rather than one at a time? Press and hold on the Back button itself. ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-fixing-firefox-4/576149/8 "2011-04-01T11:55:36Z")
Or right click the back button.