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Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already

by dima55 9y ago

Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already has tabs.

Groxx 9y ago
A bit of googling suggests that (historically at least, possibly still true) there isn't a built-in way, but you could with an addon. Most likely an addon can still do this - detect tab-open and convert to window-open ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't have any implementations I can point to, though. And a brief browse of about:config didn't yield anything interesting.
FRex 9y ago
In about:config set browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick to true and instead of Ctrl + Click use Shift + Click on links to open them in new windows instead of tabs. Also uncheck "Open new windows in a new tab instead" in Options in GUI or set browser.link.open_newwindow to 2 instead of 3 (it's the same thing) to make pop ups open in new windows instead of tabs. There might be an extension to remap the Ctrl/Shift shortcut or abandon tabs altogether but I don't know of any. Googling turns up results like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ but it's of course not compatible with Quantum.
- dima55 9y ago
  Thanks. I think I already did most of those. But the tab bar is still there, taking up space. And apparently I can't remap keys without an extension, or something.
  - bovine3dom 9y ago
    You can disable the tab bar with a "user chrome" file such as https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/master/src/static/userChrome-minimal.css https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/master/src/static/... (instructions at top of file). Mozilla is making noises about disabling this eventually, but it works for now.
  - moredhel 9y ago
    I use tree style tabs, and wanted to get rid of the redundant tabs at the top. I used the following: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525 https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525
  - ttctciyf 9y ago
    > the tab bar is still there I've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-with-one-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-... but it seems this isn't going to make it into the Firefox Quantum era. :(
LandR 9y ago
You can turn them off. Instructions here, https://superuser.com/questions/1261660/firefox-quantum-ver-57-how-can-i-hide-the-horizontal-tab-bar-with-treesty/1261661 https://superuser.com/questions/1261660/firefox-quantum-ver-... works for me: https://i.imgur.com/ZMmJlZT.png https://i.imgur.com/ZMmJlZT.png

by dima55 9y ago

Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already has tabs.

Groxx 9y ago

A bit of googling suggests that (historically at least, possibly still true) there isn't a built-in way, but you could with an addon. Most likely an addon can still do this - detect tab-open and convert to window-open ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't have any implementations I can point to, though. And a brief browse of about:config didn't yield anything interesting.

FRex 9y ago

In about:config set browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick to true and instead of Ctrl + Click use Shift + Click on links to open them in new windows instead of tabs. Also uncheck "Open new windows in a new tab instead" in Options in GUI or set browser.link.open_newwindow to 2 instead of 3 (it's the same thing) to make pop ups open in new windows instead of tabs. There might be an extension to remap the Ctrl/Shift shortcut or abandon tabs altogether but I don't know of any. Googling turns up results like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ but it's of course not compatible with Quantum.

dima55 9y ago
Thanks. I think I already did most of those. But the tab bar is still there, taking up space. And apparently I can't remap keys without an extension, or something.
- bovine3dom 9y ago
  You can disable the tab bar with a "user chrome" file such as https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/master/src/static/userChrome-minimal.css https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl/blob/master/src/static/... (instructions at top of file). Mozilla is making noises about disabling this eventually, but it works for now.
- moredhel 9y ago
  I use tree style tabs, and wanted to get rid of the redundant tabs at the top. I used the following: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525 https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1525
- ttctciyf 9y ago
  > the tab bar is still there I've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-with-one-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-... but it seems this isn't going to make it into the Firefox Quantum era. :(

LandR 9y ago

You can turn them off. Instructions here, https://superuser.com/questions/1261660/firefox-quantum-ver-57-how-can-i-hide-the-horizontal-tab-bar-with-treesty/1261661 https://superuser.com/questions/1261660/firefox-quantum-ver-... works for me: https://i.imgur.com/ZMmJlZT.png https://i.imgur.com/ZMmJlZT.png