If I click a link that opens in a new window, which of the open ones is the default?

[Cagey_Drifter]

Sometimes I’ll have 5-6 Firefox/IE windows open, and I’ll be writing something on a message board in one of them, and I’ll be surfing around in another one… and then I’ll come across a link while surfing. I click it, and it goes to the [linked] page in the “message board” window (thereby erasing all the stuff I’d been writing!). How can I tell which window a link will open in?

Hopefully you’ll understand what I mean-- sorry, I’m having trouble articulating this in a manner that’s easy to understand.

[don_t_ask]

In IE when it happens to me it is the last active window that gets taken over. If I know it is going to happen I swap to the least important window I have open. But the back button replaces it anyway.

[Myglaren]

@Cagey Drifter

Sometimes I’ll have 5-6 Firefox/IE windows open, and I’ll be writing something on a message board in one of them, and I’ll be surfing around in another one… and then I’ll come across a link while surfing. I click it, and it goes to the [linked] page in the “message board” window (thereby erasing all the stuff I’d been writing!). How can I tell which window a link will open in?

Hopefully you’ll understand what I mean-- sorry, I’m having trouble articulating this in a manner that’s easy to understand.

When using Firefox, right click on the link and select ‘Open in new window’ or ‘Open in new tab’

You can also go into Tools->Options and configure it to always open links in new tabs, so you don’t lose the page you were on, by default.