Jackson Fox

This is a problem that’s been plaguing me for weeks, and Bloglines customer support helped me straighten everything out, so I thought I would put the solution out there for others to find.

The problem I had was that links in Bloglines used to open in a new window. I then set Firefox to open links destined for a new window in a new tab instead. All was right with the world. Then one day those links stopped opening in new tabs and started opening in the current tab. I would constantly loose unread posts in Bloglines when I would forget to right-click on links to open them in a new tab.

Solution: There are two possible causes for this problem. The first is a setting in Firefox 2 that tells Firefox to open links that should open in a new window in the current window instead (Tools → Options → Tabs). Make sure the setting “New pages should be opened in” is set to a new window or a new tab. The second cause is the Tab Mix Plus plugin. This is what was causing me problems. TabMix has a setting (Tools → Tab Mix Plus Options → Links) that says “Open links with a target attribute in the current tab”. This needs to be unchecked in order for everything to work right.

Thanks to Bloglines support for the quick and easy solution!

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