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mickbab

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Original poster
Sep 13, 2008
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Sydney, Australia
Hi all,

I've just switched to Safari instead of Firefox (I don't exactly know why, just giving it a go) and I have noticed that when I open links in Forum Spy, they open in a new window in Safari, not in a new tab like in FireFox.

Is there a way to avoid this?

Thanks,
m.
 

BlueRevolution

macrumors 603
Jul 26, 2004
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Montreal, QC
If you want all links to open in new tabs instead of new windows, open a Terminal window and run

defaults write com.apple.safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
 

mickbab

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Sep 13, 2008
1,136
2
Sydney, Australia
Is there a way to set Safari to open new window links in new tabs?

I think in Firefox I had the "Open links in new window" option selected in the MacRumors Forum Spy and it would open all Forum Spy links in a new tab.

Can Safari do this? I don't want all links (ie normal internet links etc) to open in tabs, I would just like it to behave like FireFox if possible.
I'm too lazy too hold down command while I click a link.

(Does anyone get what I mean?)
 

angelwatt

Moderator emeritus
Aug 16, 2005
7,852
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USA
Is there a way to set Safari to open new window links in new tabs?

Through Terminal enter the following command,
Code:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Note that this turns Safari into single-window mode. Change true to false if you want to revert things back.
 
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